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koorkum-ketail, half a tea-spoonful of finely-powdered 

 blue-stone, and half a one of alum, all mixed, will fre- 

 quently dry them up. As a preventative for the en- 

 suing monsoon, I should recommend the same treat- 

 ment to be commenced with on the 1st of May, and 

 carried on to the 1st of July, but not increasing to 

 the eight grains of cantharides, unless some symptoms 

 of breaking out again show themselves, in which case 

 you may gradually go up to ten grains.* The cure, 

 of course, consists in eradicating all tendency to the 

 disease from the constitution, as the sores would 

 generally heal of themselves by October or November. 

 Many persons are advocates for the application of the 

 hot iron, or the caustic madar, to the sores, and giv- 

 ing large doses, internally, of blue vitriol in solution. 

 It is not for me to say anything against this treatment 

 in severe cases to those who understand how to use 

 these remedies, but there is no more analogy between 

 bursautee and farcy than there is between a com- 

 mon cold and glanders. 



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CAVEAT EMPTOR, at p. 253, says, " It is known that 

 horses have secret maladies, which cannot be disco- 

 vered by the usual trials and inspections ; therefore 

 the buyer requires a Warranty of Soundness, to guard 

 against such latent defects." I have taken the liberty 

 of extracting a great deal of the language, that 

 follows, down, to the line at p. 265, finishing with the 



* I prefer the ball given in the last note at page 193. ED. 



