362 OPERATION FOR SITFASTS. [BOOK II. 



remedies in the next page, as verjuice, or alegar, 

 made hot and applied by means of cloths soaked 

 therein, and repeatedly changed. Or apply, in the 

 same manner, the following 



Cold Lotion. 



White vinegar, 1 n , 



„ . . „ . >oi each o ounces, 



Spirits ot wine, 3 



Super-acetate of lead, 2 ounces, 



Water, 6 ounces. Mix. 



Should not these succeed, change your treat- 

 ment, adopt the direct contrary mode, and bring 

 the tumour forward to suppuration by means of 

 poultices, &c. as before recommended ; and finally, 

 when ripe, open the tumour with a lancet, promote 

 the escape of the offensive matter, and then proceed 

 to healing the sore, as in the former cases of poll- 

 evil and fistula in the withers. 



Sitfast is an indurated tumour, one that has 

 neither matter nor motion in it, and may arise from 

 either of two causes. The first is simply a gall or 

 bruise, which has produced no inflammation, and 

 consequently no matter has been engendered ; the 

 second comes of an ill-cured warble, that has 

 closed, leaving a hard insensible swelling behind. 

 Blistering is the favourite remedy with most far- 

 riers, though fomentations and poultices will fre- 

 quently achieve as much good in very little more 

 time. When suppuration has taken place, the cure 

 is to be completed by dressings of the detersive 

 ointment^ taking care that the sore does not heal 



