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pomegranatCj and alum boiled in verjuice, binding 

 over it, with a roller, a woollen cloth soaked in 

 the same. Some for this purpose use red wine 

 lees, others curriers' shavings wetted with the 

 same, bracing the part up with a firm bandage. 



If this method, after a proper trial, should not 

 be found to succeed, authors have advised that the 

 swelhng be pierced with an awl, or opened with a 

 knife; but mild blistering is in general preferred to 

 thfese methods; the included fluids being thereby 

 drawn otf, the impacted air dispersed, and the tu- 

 mor ffraduallv diminished. A little of the blis- 

 tering ointment should be laid on every other day 

 for a week, which brings on a plentiful discharge, 

 but generally in a few days is dried up, when the 

 horse may be put to his usual work, and the blis 

 tering ointment renewed in that manner once a 

 month or oftener, as the horse can be spared from 

 business, till the cure is completed. This is the 

 only method to prevent scars, which firing of 

 course leaves behind, and unless skilfully executed, 

 too often likewise a fulness of the joint, with stiff- 

 ness. ' The mild blistering ointment, where the 

 sublimate is left out, is the properest for this pur- 

 pose. 



Regimen for a Wind-broken Horse. 



This disorder is commonly caused by surfeiting, 

 violent exercise when the belly is full, or by being 

 ridden or driven into the water when he is hot ant. 

 sweaty, or from an obstinate cold not well cured. 



For the cure of this disorder. Dr. Braken advi- 

 ses, 'that the horse should have good nourishment, 

 much corn and little hay, and that every day the 

 water given him be impregnated with half an 



