CHAP. V.] CANKER, WHAT ? 521 



mediate bleeding ; for the animal so suffering in the 

 vital function must necessarily contract disease of 

 some kind or other; and that particular organ, 

 or member, which may be least able to bear it, is 

 sure to feel its effects soonest. This is as likely 

 to happen to a horse with defective frog, as to its 

 size, texture, or shape, as to any other part of him. 

 Then, let the careful owner examine and find out 

 the least perfect part of his horse, let him watch it 

 closely in all its weakness, and endeavour to detect 

 the first symptoms of illness, that he may aid nature 

 and restore her functions, before these run riot 

 beyond the help of art. 



When the frog has been pared away, and the filth 

 of the sore removed, wash it with a solution of vitri- 

 olated copper, and apply a pleget dipped in tar or 

 turpentine at the opening. If the case be a bad one, 

 the wash may be made stronger by the addition of 

 a few drops of vitriolic acid to the solution ; and 

 the tar may he poured into the opening whilst warm. 

 Place dry tow and keep it in position by means of 

 splints. Repeat this tar-dressing every other day, 

 until the injured parts slough off. Purging physic 

 will be necessary to complete the cure. 



CANKER, 



Evidently a corruption of the word cancer, as 

 applied to a running sore in human ailments, it is 

 yet well silently to permit the innovation, the better 

 to keep the two practices separate, in small as well 

 as more extended affairs. 



