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pressed in its very earliest stages, suppuration must 

 ensue. Let it be taken in time, however — that is 

 to say, in the course of a day or two, or a week 

 with healthy active horses, is not too long — and the 

 heat and inflammation will be reduced by employ- 

 ing the embrocation, recommended in incipient at- 

 tack of poll-evil, at page 321, and giving at the 

 same time the alterative ball there set down. Suc- 

 cess more generally attends this first method in the 

 present kind of tumour than in that to which we have 

 just referred, viz. poll-evil; but this method of 

 curing both is so exactly similar, that it would be 

 a waste of words to go over the same grounds again, 

 or make the same observations which we thought 

 proper to set down under that head of information. 

 At page 321, the reader will perceive, that when he 

 is attempting to repress the tumour and allay the 

 inflammation in its earliest stages, he is to employ 

 a cooling regimen ; that when the disorder has been 

 brought on by a trivial cause, this method of cure 

 seldom fails, if taken in time ; and also that fistula 

 is easier prevented hereby than is poll-evil. " How- 

 ever this be, when the disorder is found to baffle 

 the endeavours employed to disperse it (as was 

 before observed), the whole course of proceedings 

 must be altered j" the regimen, or feeding must be 

 higher, the parts encouraged to collect matter and 

 come to the surface, instead of making inroads upon 

 the adjacent muscle and bone, which it will effect 

 more hideously as the animal may be afflicted with 

 a gross habit of body. 



