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When you make this, mix the whole well together with 

 the yolk of a fresh egg, and bottle it for use. Apply it 

 freely, warm, to the wound, but do not touch the surround- 

 ing swelling, — that must be bathed with evaporating lo- 

 tion. When the wound has broken, wash the part clean 

 with warm water, and dress it daily with Friar's balsam. — 

 If proud flesh appear, it must be kept down by a careful ap- 

 plication of some caustic, which you had better purchase 

 where you can ask advice how to use it. 



Compound or fractured wounds required a different and 

 more careful treatment ; and the aid of the experienced 

 farrier or veterinary surgeon ought, in these cases, to be 

 called in, — it is generally the cheapest, and always the 

 safest, mode of proceeding. 



If the horse be slightly bruised at any time, the follow- 

 hig application will be found useful, if well mixed together 

 and applied : 



Vinegar and spring water, each, - - - six ounces ; 



Sal ammoniac, two ounces ; 



Tincture of camphor, each two ounces ; 



Tincture of aloes, one ounce. 



Wounds are often attended with local inflammation ; 

 that is, the part injured becomes hot, swollen, and painful ; 

 it is, in this case, said to be inflamed. When inflammation 

 is thus local, and external, warm fomentations, or poultices, 

 (which is a kind of fomentation,) or cold applications, may 

 be applied with advantage, according to circumstances. — ■ 

 Fomentations, by opening the pores of the skin, promote 

 perspiration, and so decrease the swelling, and lessen pain ; 

 while cold applications promote evaporation, and so assist 

 in restoring health to the part affected. 



Clean hot water is the best Fomextatiox ; it should bo 

 used as hot as can be without paining the horse ; continue 

 to foment the part affected for some time, having a fresh 

 supply of hot water : half an hour is the least time a fo- 

 mentation should be continued. A sponge is useful to fo- 

 ment with, especially if the leg be the part to be fomen- 

 ted. 



Poultices should also be applied as warm as they can 

 be safely borne, and are best made of those articles which 

 best retain heat and moisture. Bran mash, mashed turnips 

 or very thick oatmeal gruel, are excellent materials foi 

 poultices ; linseed meal, alone, makes the best poultice, and 



