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evacuated. If there be any hollow place, you muffc 

 pierce the Skin at the end of it, with a red hot Iron 7 

 and then put in Tents with the Luke's Ointment from 

 one hole to another , keeping the Sore moift with 

 the Duke's Ointment, to allay the Inflammation *, and 3 

 if there be a large hollow with a great putrefa&ion 9 

 injecting the yellow Water. 



This method is preferable to incifion, when the 

 bottom of the Sore and the Bones are found. But, 

 if the Bone be foul, the fureft way is to cut off all 

 that is corrupted, and even the Mane, if there be 

 occafion, without touching the Nerve that runs 

 along it ; difcovering at once the bottom of the 

 Sore, and piercing it to the quick. You muft cut 

 the Sore floping, without high or fwelling Lips 3 

 to keep the Matter from llagnating •, and carefully 

 feparate the corrupt flelh, from the NechSinew ; 

 the cutting of which would certainly fpoil the 

 Horfe. Having thus freed the Sore of its corrup- 

 tion, ftrew the place with red-hot Afhes, taken out 

 of a burning Fire, till the Blood be ftopt. Next 

 day wafh it with the Water of a Smith's Forge, luke- 

 warm, or with warm Wine, Vrine, or the fecond 

 Water -, and ftrew it again with hot Afies, repeating 

 the fame method two or three times once in twenty 

 four hours; for the alkaline, afiy Salt, being melted 

 by the moifture of the Sore, deftroys the acid humour, 

 and confequently abates the Swelling, Heat, and 

 other Symptoms. In an Army where you cannot 

 eafily come at Jjhcs, after the Incifion, bathe the 

 Sore with Water, fully laden with diflblv'd Vitriol 

 or the German green Copperas, and bind on it Flax 

 dippM in the fame Water. After forty eight hours, 

 take off the DrefTing j and, if you perceive any In- 

 flammation, renew the application of the Flax as 

 above, till the heat and fwelling are aifwag'd. 

 Then wafh the Sore with the Water cf a Smith's 

 Torge, lukewarm, and after that with the fecond 

 1 Water y 



