FOOT-ROT. 
583 
NO II.-STRONGER RECIPE. 
Verdigrise, powdered . . 1 ounce. 
Nitrous acid . . .2 ounces. 
Water . . 6 ounces. 
NO. III.—STRONGEST RECIPE. 
Bed nitrate of mercury . 1 ounce, 
Nitrous acid . . .2 ounces, 
Spirit of wine . . .4 ounces. 
The nitrated mercury should be first dissolved in the acid, 
and then the spirit of wine should be added ; to facilitate 
the decomposition of the nitrate, add a teaspoonful or two 
of pure water, as frequently no action and decomposition 
will take place without water being added. 
After these appliances have been repeated twice or thrice, 
it will be found that the flesh assumes a more healthy 
aspect; the parts should then be healed by an application 
of tincture of myrrh, or Friar’s balsam. But should a 
discharge continue to flow from the parts, they should be 
carefully washed with a weak solution of soda, or Goulard’s 
extract. The animals must be kept in a dry situation until 
the feet are perfectly healed. 
The treatment pursued by that enterprising agricul¬ 
turist, Sir George S. Mackenzie, is first to administer a dose 
of Glauber’s salts, from one to two ounces, according to the 
size of the animal. Then the ulcer is laid open, and 
cleaned and washed with a weak caustic ley of potash or 
soda, and then filled up with scraped linen, steeped in 
Goulard cerate. This dressing to be continued every even¬ 
ing, until the granulations of the healing process become 
apparent. If ulceration continues, then the part may be 
again washed with caustic ley. When the hollow part 
caused by ulceration is tolerably well filled up, a dress- 
