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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
tallow should be added ; and when thoroughly mixed, put 
in the whole of the oil, and after being well mixed let the 
salve be poured into a flat vessel to cool; or it may be 
allowed to remain in the vessel in which it was melted : in 
either case keep stirring the mixture until cold. 
If the weather is warm, the preparation may be found too 
thin; to obviate this, add an additional quantity of tallow 
and resin. This ointment is applied in the same manner as 
the smearing preparation, commencing with a line along the 
back, and one on each side, one down all the legs, and on the 
centre of the belly, as well as the inside of the thighs, and 
both sides of the neck. Unless the weather is cold, the 
wool should be shorn previous to the use of any of the above 
appliances, and the whole skin well washed with soda and 
water, or strong soap and water, with a soft shoebrush, and 
after the animal is perfectly dry, the ointment may be then 
applied over the whole body. If after the application of 
either of the above ointments, the disease seems to spread, 
or if it is cured in one portion of the skin, and breaks out 
in another, it may then be inferred that the complaint has 
assumed a constitutional character, in which case it will be 
necessary to give internal remedies. The following specific 
will have the effect of curing the disease :—to be adminis¬ 
tered once a day for a week :— 
Sulphur ... 1 ounce, 
Antimony . . 1 ounce, 
Purified nitre . .1 ounce; 
to be made into three balls with lintseed-meal and treacle. 
After the ordinary process of shearing, if the sheep were 
anointed with a very weak preparation of the above oint¬ 
ments, it will have the effect of keeping off the scab and 
other cutaneous diseases. 
It will require great caution in the application of these 
