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and putrid smell. When weakness and debility are 

 present, putrid ulcers spread rapidly. The treatment of 

 putrefaction in a living animal should be directed to lay- 

 ing open the sores, so as to get rid of the putrid dis- 

 charge before it is absorbed into the circulation, and 

 immediately wash with the solution of the chloride of 

 lime, and afterwards dress the sores with equal parts of 

 olive oil and creosote, and sprinkle the sores with pow- 

 dered charcoal. Give the horse good feed to support 

 the strength, and give sulphate of iron and gentian root, 

 two drachms each, night and morning. 



Pyemia. — This is a term signifying pus in the blood, 

 acting and setting up a fermentation in the blood. Ex- 

 amples, tubercles in the lungs, glanders, farcy, and grease. 

 (All of which see. Also see Ferments.) 



Quack Medicines. — Are medicines prepared ac- 

 cording to private or secret receipts, and are puffed up 

 in the newspapers, and private circulars, as infallible cures, 

 in most all diseases which can be named, for either man 

 or beast, for external application, or internal administra- 

 tion. No subject in medicine has been more fully ex- 

 posed than the great and absurd pretensions of those 

 medicines ; but notwithstanding all this, the credulity of 

 even the best class of society is great ; finding their 

 readiest victims among them. It surely requires no ar- 

 gument to show how dangerous must be the indiscrimi- 

 nate use of powerful drugs, compounded by parties who 

 likely never had the slightest knowledge of a medical 

 education, and how such persons can be able to cure, 

 by their remedies, diseases which are, or may be, 

 deemed incurable, and have defied the most consum- 

 mate skill and experience of the veterinary medical 

 world. 



