324 0/ Gelding, Docking, and 



lays on the block ; for when the cutting 

 inftrument is applied underneath, the ^ 

 blow is then given on the tail, which of 

 courfe, by bruifing the tendons, may well 

 be fufpedted to occafion bad fymptoms. 

 The lad obfervation we fhall make, is in 

 regard to the fearing-iron, which fhould 

 be fmooth, and better polifhed than thofe 

 generally ufed, and ought to be rubbed 

 clean on a woollen cloth, before the 

 application to the flump, otherwife the 

 fparks, which fly from the iron, are apt 

 to occafion great pain, with fwelling 

 both of the (heath and fundament ^ nor 

 fhould it ever be applied flaming hot, for 

 then it brings the burnt part away with 

 itj and as it requires a re-application, 

 in order to form a new efchar on the 

 veflels, the bone by thefe means is fre- 

 'quently left too much expofed, fo that it 

 is often a confiderable time before it is 

 covered. 



The man- Farriers feldom apply any thing to 

 3fier of the fl:ump ; which need only be anointed 

 dreiTing ^\^^ fj^g wound ointment, and when the 

 and "ene- ^^^har is digefled ofi^, may be waflicd 

 ral t?eat- with allum or lime-waters: but if an in- 

 mcm. flammation cnfues, with a difcharge of 

 thin matter, the turpentine digeftive, with 

 tiixfture of myrrh, p. 245. fhould be ap- 

 plied;. 



