240 Of TUMOURS a?2d 



them together cold, with a knife or 

 fpatula. 



Howufed. 'T^is lad, applied early, will prevent a 



' fungus, or proud flefli, from fliooting 



out; for ifyoudrefs too long with the 



above digeftive, the fungus will rile fall, 



and give fome trouble to fupprefs it -, when 



it will be neceflary to warti the fore, as 



often as you drefs, with a folution of 



blue vitriol in water, or to fprinkle it 



with burnt alum and precipitate. If 



thefe fhould not be powerful enough, 



touch v/ith a cauftick, or walh with the 



Thefubli- fublimate water, made by diflblving half 



matewafh. ^^ q^^^^ of corrofive fublimate in a pint 



of lime-water. -7^ 



I 



Ob'-erva- But this trouble may in a great mea- 



tion. fure be prevented, if the fore is on a 



part where bandage can be applied with 

 comprelTes of linen cloth : for even when 

 thefe excrefcences regerminate, as it were, 

 under the knife, and fpring up in fpite 

 of the caufticks above mentioned, they 

 are tp be fubdued by moderate compref- 

 fion made on the fprouting fibres, by 

 thefe means. 



Wherein Authors on farriery have in general 

 authors given very proper receipts to aniwer 



are de- CVery 



ficient 



