Bruifes 07i th Withers, ^c. 275 



Wine, of each four ounces ; white 

 wine vinegar, fix ounces ; oil of 

 virtriol and ^gyptiacum, of each 

 two ounces. 



Thefe fharp liquid applications are obferva- 

 often found more efficacious drefTings tion. 

 than ointments with precipitate, or ver- 

 digreafe, or indeed any other digeftives ; 

 as they infinuate themfelves more readily 

 into the interftices of the fung«, or lit- 

 tle quag holes, fo commonly obferved in 

 thefe kind of ulcers ; and at the fame time 

 level and deftroy the rifing, and exube- 

 rant pupillas ; whereby the ulcer grows 

 more fmooth and dry, foon heals up, and 

 cicatrifes. 



"When the cavities are truly fiflulous, 

 the callofities muft be cut out, where it 

 can be done, with a knife -, and the re- 

 mainder deflroyed by corrofives, viz, 

 precipitate, burnt alum and white vi- 

 triol, as we have already obferved in the 

 chapter on Ulcers, 



Warbles are fmall hard tumours under ^y^j-^^j^g 

 the laddie part of the horfes's back, oc- defcribed. 

 cafioned by the heat of the facidle- in tra- 

 velling, or its uneafy fituation. A hot 

 greafy difh-clout at firft frequently ap- 



T 2 plied. 



