322 POLL-EVIL ; RADICAL CURE, [BOOK II. 



clothing up the patient, nor need he be exposed to 

 cold air, if it prevails. When the disorder has 

 been brought on by simple compression of the ear- 

 band, and is recent, we have never known the fore- 

 going treatment to fail ; and in cases of vigorous 

 constitutions, the swelling, heat, and tension have 

 been reduced so quickly (i. e. in four or five days), 

 as to leave certain careless observers in doubt 

 whether the animal had really laboured under a 

 genuine attack of poll-evil. 



Remove the halter, and if the animal be put to 

 work, contrive to keep back the ear-band. A good 

 and valuable embrocation will be found in simple 

 vinegar three or four times a day, or that kind 

 termed alegar in the north, or the sediment of very 

 stale beer. Old verjuice answers the same end ; 

 and all this kind of embrocation must be laid on 

 warm, by means of cloths soaked and applied re- 

 peatedly. 



%* The same treatment and observations ivill 

 apply to all the other species of abscess in its milder 

 state, viz. fistula, warbles, quittor ; but of these let 

 us speak more particularly under their respective 

 heads of information. 



Second method of cure. — Very few cases present 

 themselves to recollection of even recent poll-evil, 

 that would admit of being completely dispersed, 

 and a radical cure effected, by any means what- 

 ever; and it is due to candour to acknowledge, 

 that some of the more stubborn attacks were found 

 to have relapsed after a while, which proved that 



