J268 CANKER IN THE FOOT. 



Method of Dressing. 



on the shoe with two nails on each sicte j then 

 take a handful of common salt, and lay it over 

 the part which is cut; fasten it properly with 

 hurds : this will stop the bleeding. The next day 

 take oif the dressing, and examine whether the 

 hoof presses on any part that is tender ; if so, it 

 must be pared quite thin, or, if hollow under- 

 neath, be taken quite away. If necessary, this 

 operation must be repeated every time it is 

 dressed. 



(RECIPE, No. 166.) 



Take — Egyptiacum, four ounces ; 



Alum, ia fine powder, half an ounce ; 



Blue vitriol, and white vitriol, of each two 



drachms, in powder : 

 Mix them in a gallypot. 



Anoint all the diseased part of the foot with 

 the compound tincture (No. 164, p. 265), then 

 take pledgets of tow, and dip in the above mix- 

 ture (No. 166, p. 9,67), and apply all over the 

 parts affected ; and upon this dressing, let pledgets 



