270 BITES OF VENOMOUS CREATURES. 



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Treatment of a Horse with cankered Feet 



from falling off. Two or three doses of mercu* 

 rial physic, such as TNo. 2.5, p. 47) must be given, 

 and worked off with the purging ball (No. ^6, 

 p. 4i7^y which will be the only means of cleansing 

 and purifying his blood, and also of giving a check 

 to the disease: let him be treated as there di- 

 rected. In a few weeks after he has been phy- 

 sicked, it will be proper to give him a few of 

 those purifying balls (No. 28, p. 49), as there di- 

 rected. ]{3y strict attention to the preceding me- 

 thods of treatment every skilful person will be able 

 to effect a cure on the worst kind of cankered feet 

 whatsoever. * 



CHAP. LIV. 



BITES AND STINGS OF VENOMOUS CREATURES. 



The bite of a viper, or adder, may be cured, if 

 early attended to, by rubbing the part, or the 

 ivhole limb, for a considerable time, with warm 



