MURRAIN OR GARGLE. 
475 
able effect; two or three quarts daily will be found benefi 
cial. The animal should be kept warm and in a house ; the 
food to consist of pollard mashes, draff, warm gruel, and hay. 
At this stage of the malady a puffing up of the hide, or 
abscesses filled with wind, and a thin acrid matter which 
evolves foul gas, make their appearance. This is an attempt 
of nature to throw off the disease. These may appear on 
any part of the body, and must be discharged by making 
an incision in the hide the full length of the puffy part. 
Into these must be inserted a small piece of damp sponge, 
to absorb all the putrid matter, and immediately afterwards 
the cavity must be filled with pledgets of tow dipped in 
the following ointment. The materials to be well rubbed 
ap together. 
Tar ointment 
Rose-water 
Tincture of myrrh 
Nitre, finely powdered . 
3 ounces, 
1 ounce, 
1 ounce, 
\ ounce 
This condition of the complaint is almost always accom¬ 
panied by coldness of the body, and an almost total insen¬ 
sibility of the skin. The inside of the mouth presents an 
unusually soft, hanging appearance, with a discharge of a 
serous matter from it, as well as from the nostrils, which 
has a very foetid smell; the eyes are dull and heavy; the 
breath and dung have a most offensive odour ; all of which 
strongly indicate the approach of mortification. This must 
be arrested by the following medicine, which must be given 
every twelve hours, until a change of the above symptoms 
has taken place. The following recipe is the quantity for 
a single dose. When Peruvian bark cannot be obtained, or 
may be deemed too expensive, powdered willow bark may 
be substituted for it, but double the quantity will be re¬ 
quired. 
