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knife or hot iron, as most convenient, you must 

 take away the callous or fungous flesh ; if it should 

 bleed profusely, melt some rosin on the sore with 

 a hot-iron, and sear the arteries. Lay a cloth up- 

 on the sore wet with spirit, and unbind your horse; 

 if an inflammation succeeds, supple it with a hot 

 bath, to reduce the swelling, and bring on a sup- 

 puration. Now, be careful to keep it from the 

 air, and apply your digestive, made of basilicon ; 

 and if proud or fungous flesh is seen, add to it a 

 little verdigrise. Yet, if after all your care, 

 * the matter falls between the shoulder-blades, or 

 upon the neck bone, so that no drain can be made 

 from the bottom of the sore ; you had better give 

 up the cure^ and save your trouble. 



Horses often have swellings upon their shoul- 

 ders, that are not sinuous ; in such cases, bathing 

 with hot vinegar or urine will generally make a 

 resolution of the humour, and prevent further 

 .mischief, 



SHOULDER STRAIN. 



This lameness is brought on by overstraining 

 the limb. There is a collection of grumous 

 blood between the shoulder-blade and body ; 

 the small vessels being over-extended or ruptur- 

 ed by the strain, is the cause of the extravasated 

 fluid, which must be re-absorbed or drained ofl", 

 before the beast will get well. 



Cure. — My method of cure is this : Take up 

 a piece of skin on the corner of the shoulder, as 

 large as a nine pence, then put your finger to the 

 hole, and start the skin from the flesh two inches 

 round, and blow up the shoulder. Now put in 

 a piece of leather, cut round, with a hole in the 

 middle, answering to that in the shoulder. This 

 in about twelve or fifteen days, will discharge 



