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the humour, and being taken out, will seldom 

 fail of a cure. 



This method has been reprobated by some ; 

 but experience has taught me to adopt it. Where 

 the lameness is slight, I have found the follewing 

 an efficacious remedy : 



Take of high wines one pint, oil of spike one 

 gill, pigs' feet oil one gill, gum camphor half an 

 ounce, and one beasts gall. Simmer these to- 

 gether over a gentle fire, apply it warm to the 

 diseased part, and heat it in with a dish of coals^ 

 or hot slice, twice in a day, 



CLAP IN THE BACK SINEWS. 



This disease is a lameness in the back sinews, 

 between the knee and fetlock joint. It is pro- 

 duced by a strain, which debilitates the nerves, 

 and therefore produces lameness.- The cords of 

 the leg will sometimes swells which will deter- 

 mine the seat of the disease ; if net, you may 

 know it from a shoulder strain by the horse's 

 steping short, but taking his foot from the ground; 

 whereas, in a shoulder strain, the horse will drag 

 his toe on the ground when he walks. 



Cure. — This may be easily effected, by bath- 

 ing the leg in ihe day time, \Vith the ointment 

 prescribed for a shoulder strain ; at night apply 

 an emollient poultice of turnips and Indian meal. 

 Make a boot for the horse's leg, tie it at the fet- 

 lock, then fill it with your poultice, and "tie it 

 again above the knee. This method followed a 

 few days, wiii prove an efficacious remedy. 



HIDE BOUND. 



This is brought on by low keeping and sur- 

 feits; tiie juices of the body are dissipated, the 

 bkin becomes rigid, and as it were adheres to the 



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