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vation is necessary ; and it is advisable, after all sores are well 
healed, to slightly touch the mouth again, to guard against 
the disease breaking out in future. 
I have never found any bad effects arise from salivation 
beyond his being unable to eat dry food for a few days; the 
healthiness of the gums and breath are soon restored by 
syringing the mouth occasionally with alum and water. The 
treatment of the sore is simple, but requires cleanliness and 
care. On the first appearance of those dark coloured ulcers, 
with ichorous discharge that cannot be mistaken, they 
should be dressed with black wash, applied on clean lint 
every four or five hours, which will assist the operation of the 
calomel pills. About the third or fourth day, by sponging 
the sores, small kunkur stones will show themselves, which 
must be carefully scooped out with the finger, and the sore 
dressed with green ointment, applied warm and covered with 
clean lint, which will cause all diseased parts to slough off. 
The sores must be washed and dressed twice or three times a 
day to search for kunkur ; if one bit remains, the sore will 
not heal till the cold weather sets in, and then the seed of 
disease is left behind. If the edges of the sores require 
eating down, a powder composed of equal parts of sulphate of 
zinc and blue vitriol, finely powdered, should be rubbed in ; 
but when they begin to look healthy, they may be healed 
like any other sore by ^Egvptiacum, tincture of aloes, cala- 
mine ointment, &c.; but great care must be taken to secure 
the horse, or he will gnaw any sore he can get at. 
Green ointment is made as follows: — hog’s lard, 2 lbs.; 
common turpentine, 2 lbs. ; verdigris, pounded, 1 oz. ; spirits 
of turpentine, 1 oz. Warm the lard and turpentine together, 
and stir in the verdigris over the fire, and the spirits of tur- 
pentine when nearly cool. 
n.b. Salivation as described, and black wash applied with 
slight pressure to the coronets, is the best of all cures for 
that troublesome disease called “ quittor,” if resorted to in 
the early stage of the complaint. 
By the distribution of this document to all mounted corps, 
I believe, of the three Presidencies, there can be little doubt 
his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief gave Captain 
Apperley (who, by the way, is a son of “ Nimrod,”) the 
credit of having “done the state good service;” but had 
there been a “ Senior Veterinary Surgeon” on the establish- 
ment, he would at once have pointed out its unscientific 
nature and absurdity, as could also, I have no doubt, any 
veterinary surgeon of half-a-dozen years’ standing in the 
