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the limbs, which is what often gives rife 

 to fuch excrefcences. 



Various are the remedies prefcribed v^arlon* 

 for this difdordcr ; the ufual way is to remedies 

 rub the fplent with a round flick, or the ^°^ ^^^* 

 handle ot a hammer, till it is almoil raw, P"''^"^ 

 and then touch with oil of origanum. 

 Others lay on a pitch plaifter, with a 

 little fublimate, or arfenick, to deftroy the 

 fubftance: fome ufe oil of vitriol ; fomc 

 tindture of cantharides : all which me- 

 thods have at times fucceeded ; only they 

 are ap^ to leave a fear with the lofs of 

 hair. Thofe applications that are of a 

 more c aullic nature, often do more hurt 

 than good, efpecially when the fplent is 

 grown very hard, as they produce a rot- 

 tennefs, which keeps running feveral 

 months before the ulcer can be healed, and 

 then leaves an ugly fear. 



Mild blifters often repeated, ss recom- Mild blif- 

 mended in the chapter of Bone-Spavin^ ^^^s are to 

 fhould firft be tried as the mott eligible ^^^7jf"' 

 method, and will generally fucceed, even finng. 

 beyond expedlation : but if they fail, and 

 the fplent be near the knee or joints, you 

 mud fire and blifter in the fame manner 

 as for the bone fpavin. 



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