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ling, beginning at the orifice. The dead parts are 

 then to be cut away every two or three days, and 

 the application is to be repeated till the cure is 

 complete. 



ON SHEEP. 



For the foot-rot in sheep. 



Take a piece of alum, a piece of green vitriol, 

 and some white mercury — the alum must be in the 

 largest proportion; dissolve them in water, and af- 

 ter the hoof is pared, anoint it with a feather, and 

 bind on a rag over all the foot. 



Another. — Pound some green vitriol fine, and 

 apply a little of it to the part of the foot affected, 

 binding a rag over the foot as above. Let the 

 sheep be kept in the house a few hours afler this 

 is done, and then turn them out to a dry pasture. 

 This is the most common way of curing the foot- 

 rot in Middlesex. 



Another. — Others anoint the part with a feather 

 dipt in aqua fortis, or weak nitrous acid, which 

 dries it at once. Many drovers that take sheep to 

 Smithfield, carry a little bottle of this about with 

 them, which, by applying to the foot with a feath- 

 er, helps a lame sheep by hardening its hoof, and 

 enabling it to travel better. Some may think aqua 

 fortis is of too hot a nature, but such a desperate 

 disorder requires an active cure, which, no doubt, 

 is ever to be used cautiously. 



Another. — Spread some slacked quick lime over 

 a house floor pretty thick, pare the sheep's feet 

 well, and ti^rn them into this house, where they 



