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of matter long pent up, is not at all to 

 be doubted, though the more folid ones 

 may efcape. 



The cure The feat of this diforder thus difcover- 

 bytrepan- ed, our author with great ingenuity has 

 *"g* paved the way for cure, by trepanning 



thefe cavities, and taking out a piece of 

 bone ', by which means the parts affedled 

 may be wallied with a proper injedion, 

 and, in fine, the ulcers eterged, healed, 

 and dried up. 



Byinjec- But as from the obfervations fince 

 twvs and ^-jade by this gentleman, there are dif- 

 tions^^' Cerent fi'ccies of the glanders, fo the 

 - cure of the milder kinds may firft: be at- 

 tempted by injedions and fumigations. 

 Thus after taking cold, fhould a horfe, 

 for fifteen or twenty days, difcharge a 

 limpid fluid, or whitifh matter, from one 

 or both noflrils, the* glands under the 

 jaw rather growing harder than dimi- 

 nidiing, we may exped it will degene- 

 rate into a true glanders. To prevent 

 which, after firft bleeding, and treating 

 him as we have directed for a cold, let 

 an emollient inje6lion, prepared with a 

 deco(ftion of linfeed, marfh m.illows, elder, 

 camomile-flowers, and honey of rofes, 

 or fuch hke, be thrown up as far as pof- 



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