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tall is cut ofF a little higher than the difcafed 

 part, and you will foonfind your beaft recover. 

 I have known a bead, which for feveral days 

 had been unable to get up, rife in two days af- 

 ter having part of its tail cut ofi, and thrive. 



Sonne farriers will cut open the tail, and ap- 

 ply fait and onion to bring about a cure. I 

 have heard of beads hung up in flings, and 

 ftufFed with drinks day after day, until they 

 have died. The ingenious farrier will tell you 

 it is the ^// or pith of the back that is afFeded; 

 but I fay the caries begins near the extremity 

 of the tail. Take away the caufe, the efFed 

 will ceafe. I am, like Dodlor Lad, for a ra- 

 dical cure, which is undoubtedly bed efFeded 

 by lopping of the rotten part. 



Another diforder very common amongd 

 beads is the foul in the foot. This is very pain- 

 ful, and of courfe injurious to the feeding 

 bead; for neither man nor bead thrives much 

 whild fudering great pain. It is mod com- 

 monly the effe6l of cold, and diews itfelf fird 

 an a tumour, or fwelling betwixt the claws of 

 the hoof, which is very much inflamed. A 

 poultice would doubtlefs be a good remedy; 



but 



