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THE VETERINARY AltT IN INDIA. 
of nature to fili the cavity. These edges may, however, be re- 
duced by touching them with a piece of bluestone for two or three 
days, or by a tight bandage. The best application afterwards is 
a piece of dry lint next to the wound, over which a plaister of 
basilicon ointment, or a mild poultice of milk and meal, or bread, 
should be applied warm, twice a-day. 
The next ulcer to which I alluded is of a putrid or fetid 
kind, which comes indiscriminately over any part of the animal. 
It originates from scurf and pimples, which, suppurating, be- 
come large ulcers, and, if not timely relieved, they grow very 
deep, and become very extensive. This disease is very common 
in this country, and is always considered by the salistry as the 
farcy. This error would, however, be slight if they knew how 
to treat the farcy, and acted accordingly. 
This disease is generally occasioned by a bad, thin, poor 
blood. Sometimes it proceeds from bad grooming, or, indeed, 
from any cause which can impoverish the system. It is not, 
however, farcy ; for it appears indiscriminately on any part of 
the body ; neither is it contagious. 
Unfortunately in these cases, as in almost every other, the 
salistry, which I have witnessed three or four times in the native 
cavalry, commences by firing, diminishing the animal’s grain, and 
every other mode that may reduce him as much as possible ; 
while the ulcers are merely dressed with some simple ointment, 
of little or no effect. The consequence was, in the cases above 
stated, that death, in a short time, relieved the tortured animal 
from further misery. If, however, an opposite course is fol- 
lowed, the cure is neither difficult nor tedious. Good diet 
should be allowed ; brisk trotting exercise, twice a-day, will be 
proper if the animal can bear it, and he should be put under a 
course of the following exciting medicine: — 
Take of yellow resin six ounces, Venice turpentine sufficient 
to soften it to a mass, which divide into twelve boluses, one 
of which may be given every morning before his exercise. 
After these are finished he may take a dozen of the cordial 
boluses of opium and tartar emetic, which will render the cure 
more permanent. In the meanwhile the ulcers are to be dressed 
with the strongest stimulants, as the milder applications would 
not affect them. These ulcers are generally of a dry nature and of 
a greenish hue, with a rotten putrid appearance, and they possess 
very little sensibility. Blue vitriol, finely powdered, may, for the 
first three or four days, be sprinkled on their whole surface, with 
a dressing of Venice turpentine over it, which will generally 
produce a discharge and a clean appearance. The blue vitriol 
may now be omitted, and an unguent, composed of tar and tur- 
