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plied, with the bread and milk poultice 

 over itj bathe the rump often with oil 

 of rofes and vinegar, bleed krgely, and 

 obferve the cooling method laid down in 

 the chapter on Fevers \ and if the fun- 

 dament is fwelled, and the inflammation 

 at all fufpeded to be communicated to 

 the bowels, let cooling emollient glyf- 

 ters particularly be injected two or three 

 times a day. Should a gangrene enfue, 

 add iEgyptiacum to your drelTings, and 

 fpirits to the fomentation •, and apply 

 over all the (Irong-beer poultice, with 

 London treacle, twice a day. — Thefe 

 feem to be the only means to be depend- 

 ed on, and will without doubt, in ge- 

 neral, be fuccelsful, when applied in due 

 time. 



Before we defcribe the operation of Nicking 

 Nicking^ it may be neceflary to enquire ^'°^v ^^- 

 how the effedofit (the elevation of the ^°^'^"^^^ 

 tail) is brought about j and in order to 

 know this, and judge with proprieiy of 

 the operation, we muft confider the tail 

 as elevated or lifted up by one fet of 

 mufcles, and deprciTed or pulled down 

 by another. 



It is fomewhat remarkable that Snape, Obferva- 

 Saunier, and Gibfon, who, in general, are tion. 



Y 3 pretty 



