102 VETERINARY 



One of these may be given immediately, and 

 the other after an interval of thirty hours. His 

 diet, whilst taking the above-mentioned balls, may 

 be warm mashes of bran. 



These balls will gently purge and cleanse the 

 intestines. It will be necefsary, after the purging 

 is over, to adopt a course of diuretics : six drams, 

 or one ounce of the diuretic balls, page 60, may 

 be given every other day, for a month, or until the 

 cure is completed. 



When the inflammation is removed, the ulcers 

 may be washed with the following mixture : 



Take alum in powder, one ounce ; Roman 

 vitriol, one dram ; water, one pint. 



This mixture may be used three or four times 

 a day. 



It sometimes happens, when the grease is be- 

 come very inveterate, and a great quantity of 

 horny matter is thrown out, that the above metnod 

 fails of having the desired effect : in this case, the 

 horn must be removed by the knife, or actual 

 cauteiy, and the hair must be cut very close ; and, 

 after applying a poultice a few days, a blister, of 

 (equal parts of purified hog's lard, and finely- 



