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Some for this purpofe ufe red wine lees, 

 others curriers lliavings wetted with the 

 fame, or vinegar, bracing the part up 

 with a firm bandage. 



Repeated If this method, after a proper trial, 

 bliilering (hould not be found to fucceed, authors; 

 ^^'°^' have advifed the fwelling to be pierced 

 with an awl, or opened with a knife; 

 but mild bliftering has in general the pre- 

 ference given to thefe methods ; the in- 

 cluding fluids being thereby drawn off, 

 the impadled air difperfed, and the tu- 

 mour gradually diminifhed. A little ot 

 the bliftering ointment fhould be laid on 

 every other day for a week, which brings 

 on a plentiful difcharge, but generally in 

 a few days is dried up, when the horfe 

 may be put to his ufual work-, and 

 the biftering ointment renewed in that 

 manner once a month, or oftener, as the 

 horfe can be fpared from bufinefs, till 

 the cure is compleated. This is the only 

 method to prevent fears, which firing of 

 courfe leaves behind, and unlefs fldlfully 

 executed, too often likewife a full- 

 nefs on the joint, with ftiffnefs : the mild 

 bliftering ointment, where the fublimate 

 is left out, is the propereft for this pur- 

 pofe, 



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