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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERA . 
In applying the aoove, it should he done with a small hit 
of sponge or rag tied to the end of a piece of stick, as it will 
blacken the skin of the operator if touched by it, although 
immediately washed off, and the stain will continue until the 
surface of the skin is worn away. 
In cases where severe salivation ensues from the use of 
corrosive sublimate, (which is, in fact, a preparation of mer¬ 
cury,) which not unfrequently happens with horses of a deli¬ 
cate constitution, the following purgative should be given 
Epsom or Rochelle salts 7 ounces, 
Sulphur . . 2£ ounces; 
mixed with liquorice powder and treacle, and formed into a 
ball, to be repeated for two or three days. 
When farcy is attended with very great swelling, recourse 
must be had to bleeding, as well as to purgatives ; the limbs 
must be subjected to frequent fomentations with water, made 
as hot as the animal can bear it; to be applied by soaking 
cloth in it, and wrapping it round the limbs. 
NASAL GLEET. 
Symptoms. —This is a constant discharge of a thickish fluid 
from the nostrils; proceeding from the mucous membrane, 
which lines the internal cavity of the nose. 
This disease is frequently brought on by the effects of a 
long-continued discharge from catarrh or cold. It is un¬ 
attended with any feverish symptoms. The flow of this 
thick mucous gleet is often very considerable, and variable 
in colour. When the horse is living upon green food, the 
discharge is of a bright grass-green colour; but if his diet 
consists of dry food, and he is kept in the stable, then it 
assumes a very different hue; varying from cream-white to 
brown, or straw-colour, and mixed with pus in some instances 
