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Well mix. Apply a small portion to the wart for seven days, 

 then discontinue, and apply sweet oil until the wart sloughs 

 off. The wound usually heals without any treatment except 

 keeping it clean, but several applications of the ointment 

 may be required before the growth is completely removed-. 



Care must be taken not to apply the ointment if the 

 surface is at all raw, or it may be absorbed, injuriously, into 

 the system. 



If the warts are situated within such delicate parts as the 

 sheath, or the vagina, or on the penis, they should be wiped 

 dry with cotton-wool, and then have dry, powdered Calomel 

 applied with a camel 's-hair brush. The wart will gradually 

 slough away, coming off in flakes, and leaving each time a 

 raw surface which must be again treated with the powder. 

 Sometimes the animal dreads the application so much that 

 it becomes violent, necessitating the use of a twitch ; but 

 this can often be avoided by blowing the Calomel on to the 

 wart with a tobacco puff, such as is commonly used by gar- 

 deners for the destruction of green-fly ; and when an angle- 

 berry is situated inside the ear — a not uncommon place — the 

 puffer is most useful. It is difficult, however, to blow out 

 Calomel by itself, since it is an excessively light powder, and 

 should therefore be associated with one heavier than itself, 

 but if a little Borax Powder is mixed with it there will be 

 no difficulty found in thus using it. 



The Hoofs. 



Apart from accidents, such as picking up a nail, being 

 pricked in shoeing, or being bruised by treading on some 

 sharp substance, or an over-reach, the foot is liable to suffer 

 from navicular, laminitis, quittor, corns, thrush, sand-crack, 

 and seedy toe, all of which are attended by lameness more 

 or less severe, generally, but not always curable. 



Navicular. 



Navicular lameness in the earliest stages, when only 

 inflammation of the bony structure of the navicular bone 



