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X character as to keep the bowels reguhir. Bran, oats, long forage, 

 (green if possible), arc good ; and an occasional mash of boiled carrots or 

 turnips mixed with bran or shorts, to which a table-spoonful of salt is 

 added, will be found beneficial. He should have moderate daily exercise ; 

 and as much good pure water as he will take should be given him. If 

 the food given does not have the effect of keeping the bowels open, give 

 an occasional mild purgative compounded as follows : 



No. 31. 3 Drachms finely powdered aloes, 



1 Drachm ground ginger. 



Stir these ingredients thoroughly together ; then use sufficient soft 

 »oap to make a paste that can be rolled into a ball. Wrap this in thin 

 paper, and give by elevating his head and thrusting it into his throat. 



Give the following tonic, to stimulate the digestive and secretive 

 functions : 



No. 32. C Oz. powdered sulphate of iron, 



6 Oz. rosin, 

 3 Oz. gentian, 

 3 Oz. ground ginger. 



Mix thoroughly, divide into twelve powders, and give one night and 

 morning. When these powders are exhausted, make up the same 

 mixture, with the exception of the rosin, which, by too long continuance 

 is apt to affect the kidneys unduly, and give as before, night and 

 morning. 



To remove the buttons and ulcers, take a large stick or pencil of lunar 

 oftustic or of caustic potash, and with it burn out the central portion of 

 each bud, and cauterize each ulcer. When convenient to obtain what is 

 called a farrier's "budding iron," the work may be more expeditiously 

 done by heating the iron to redness, and, after rubbing it on something 

 to clear off the scales, inserting the point into every bud and ulcer — 

 remembering that it must be done moderately, and not so as to destroy 

 the tissues. When these burnt places begin to slough out, and look 

 pale, foul, and spongy, with thin matter, wash them frequently with a 

 solution of 1 drachm of corrosive sublimate in 1 oz. rectified spirits. 

 When the wounds begin tC look; red, and the bottom of them is even an<3 

 firm, while they discharge H thick white or yellow matter, use som« 

 •imple ointment. 



If the disease is plainly in an advanced stage — the buttons and ulcers 

 numerous and widely spread over the body ; the thirst great and hard to 

 satisfy ; signs of glanderous ulcers on the mucous membrane of the nose ; 

 the hair, where the sores have not invaded the skin, staring and easy ta 



