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USE OF CAMPHORATED SOAP LINIMENT. 
to form a union among us, and will essentially advance the art of 
which it treats. Its prosperity need not be doubted, so long as it 
is possessed of such able editors and eminent contributors, and so 
many useful cases enrich its pages. From my heart, I wish you. 
the success due to you; and may you, and all awakened minds 
who would cherish a veterinary reformation, be consolated by its 
completion and its happy results. 
I send you the history of a disease, with its treatment. My 
chief object, however, is to show the good effects of a very simple 
liniment. 
Symptoms .—A very great enlargement of the shoulder-joint 
comes on rapidly; very hard, not very sensible or hot to the touch ; 
does not always affect the constitution; rather impedes the action 
of the extremity on which it forms. 
A mare of a plethoric habit, and five years old, affected on the 
3d of March, 1827. The onset treatment consisted of a repe¬ 
tition of bleedings, purgings, diuretics, and embrocations applied 
to the enlargement, and which was continued, at proper times, 
for three weeks. No good resulting from this treatment, it 
was discontinued, and was followed by the insertion of setons, 
blisters, and other powerful stimulants, until the expiration of 
another three weeks. They, like the former, had not the power 
of dispersing the tumour. A liniment composed of hard soap Jvi, 
camphorated spirit 3ii, rectified spirit ^iv, boiled until perfectly 
incorporated, was then spread on the swelling quite hot. In six 
days after its application, the enlargement became greatly dimi¬ 
nished, when another piaister was applied ; and in thirteen days 
the tumour quite disappeared.—Another case of this kind has 
since come under my observation. The common mode of treat¬ 
ment was first resorted to, but with no good result; by the ap¬ 
plication of this liniment, however, the disease was conquered. 
I have tried it in obstinate cases of curb , attended with a great 
deposit of lymph, tenderness, heat, and great lameness. In one 
case, after bleeding from the foot, high-heeled shoe, rest, blisters, 
and embrocations had failed, this liniment restored the hock in 
ten days. These are facts respecting this old-fashioned lini¬ 
ment. Any one who will select proper cases or states of enlarge¬ 
ment, will be convinced that it is invaluable. 
