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an inconsiderable sore like a burn, which may be soon 

 cured by treating it as such. It may be necessary in 

 some cases to make the second application. The 

 horse may be used as usual at the time, and when 

 the wound heals up, scarcely any scar will remain. 



Or, Take blood from the neck vein and bathe the 

 swelled parts with spirits of turpentine once or twige 

 a week, rubbing it in with a hard brush until you dis- 

 cover the swelling is stopped: the lumps always 

 remain, but as they cease to grow the horse gets 

 better. 



Or, Give stramonium (Jamestown or Jimeson weed) 

 in doses of one drachm, mixed with his feed for several 

 days, then turning him out for two or three months. 



FISTULA. 



THE fistula in the withers, generally proceeds from 

 some blow or bruise, and is the most disagreeable 

 disease to which a horse is subject. I would recom- 

 mend it to every person, whose situation will admit 

 of the sacrifice, to dispose of a horse thus unfortunately 

 affected, for whatever sum he would bring, or even 

 give him away, sooner than be at the expense and 

 trouble, and run the risk of performing a cure which, 

 if completed, would be tedious, and the horse be much 

 lessened in value in consequence of being disfigured by 

 the scar which unavoidably will be left. The remedy 

 here recommended is severe, but it will have the 

 desired effect more speedily than any other. 



