%^o Cy/^^POLLEVIL* 



lowing, made hot, and fill up the cavity 

 with tow foaked in it. 



A drying TAKE vinegar, or fpirit of wine, 

 waHi. half a pint ; white vitriol diflblved 



in fpring water, half an ounce \ tinc- 

 ture of myrrh, four ounces. 



This may be made fharper, by adding 

 more vitriol ; but if the fiefh is very lux- 

 uriant, it Ihould firfl be pared down with 

 a knife before the application : with this 

 wafh alone Mr. Gibfon has cured thisdif- 

 order, without any other formality of dref- 

 fing, wafliing with it twice a day, and lay- 

 ing over the part a quantity of tow foaked 

 in vinegar, and the white of eggs beat 

 together. This lad application will ferve 

 inftead of a bandage, as it will adhere 

 clofe to the poll, and come off eafy when 

 there is occafion to drefs. Some wafh with 

 the phagedsenic water, and then fill up the 

 abfcefs vnl\i loofe doffils of tow foaked 

 iniEgyptiacum and oil of turpentine made 

 hot, and continue this method till the 

 cure is effected. 



But the mod compendious method of 

 cure, is found by obfervation to be by 

 fcaldin^, as the farriers term it, and is 

 thus profccuted when the fore is foul, of 



a bad 



