"2,(^0 O/' ^ B O N E-S P A V I N. 



Obferva- When the fpavin has been of long 

 tion. (landing, it will require to be renewed, 



perhaps, ^vo, or fix times ; but after the 

 lecond application, a greater diftance of 

 time mull be allowed, otherwife it might 

 leave a fear, or caufe a baldnefs ; to pre- 

 vent which, once a fortnight or three 

 weeks is often enough; and it may in 

 this manner be continued fix or leven 

 times without the leafl blemifh, and will 

 generally be attended with fuccefs. 



But the fpavins that put out on older, 

 or full -aged horfes, are apt to be more 

 cbftinate, as being feated more inward } 

 and when they run among the finuofities 

 ct the joint, they are for the moft part 

 incurable, as they then lie out of the 

 reach of applications, and are arrived to 

 a degree oi impenetrable hardncfs. 



Sonierau- '^^^ ^^^'^^ method in thefe cafes is to 

 tiops in fire diredly, or to ufe the (Irongeft kind 

 regard to of cauftic blifter? ; and fometimes to fire 

 ^^""? ^""^ and lay the blifier immediately over tha 

 part •, but this way feldom fucceeds far- 

 ther, than putting a flop to the growth of 

 the fpavin, and is apt to leave both a 

 blemifli and fliffnefs behind; befides the 

 great rifl^ run (by applications of thefe 



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