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Myrrh, in powder, 4 drachms, 



Mastich, 2 drachms, 



Tincture of myrrh sufficient to bring the whole 

 to a proper consistence. 

 Should the cure of the wound proceed too fast, the 

 over-luxuriant granulations of new or proud flesh 

 must be touched with caustic. 



But, notwithstanding all that has been said, it 

 sometimes happens that a totally different course 

 becomes necessary, when abscess in the poll is 

 connected with another disease arising from the 

 same vitiated state of the animal's system, and the 

 remedy for one of these will cure the other. Farcy 

 is the correspondent disease here alluded to, or 

 rather say a tendency to farcy, visible in certain 

 scanty lumps or tumours on the body and legs :. 

 these will be run off sometimes by means of a co- 

 pious discharge at the poll. Occasionally, how- 

 ever, the farcy is of too inveterate a description to 

 run itself off; this proves that the whole mass of 

 the animal's system requires correction, and that it 

 must be treated with medicines proper for the farcy, 

 as well as the local affection which has obtained the 

 name of Poll-evil. We have agreed to call- this dispo- 

 sition to contract diseases, the humours, for want of 

 a better term ; which we have consented to illustrate, 

 by allowing that it may be " the humours diverted 

 from their healthy course," whereby the animal sys- 

 tem is vitiated, and lies open to incur the first attack of 



