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and immersed the limb in a pail of warm water for some hours at 
a time. This greatly assuaged the inflammation and pain: she also 
licked it, so as to make it bleed freely, and which still fur¬ 
ther relieved her. On the 19th, a saturated solution of zinc 
was poured into the cleft, and a pledget of tow dipped in the same 
was drawn close between the claws. The running sores were 
dressed with powdered alum, and bole armeniac was dusted over 
them by way of an absorbent and astringent, and over all a 
loose bandage was passed. This treatment was continued daily 
until the 25th, when the wounds looked very much dried up, and 
scabbed over. From this time to the 7th of August it was dressed 
all over with a mixture of tar and powdered zinc, which had a 
surprising effect in restoring a healthy action. She is now sound, 
and turned out to grass in a dry hard meadow. 
OLD REMEDIES FOR FARCY AND GLANDERS. 
We have given the modern French doctrine of the nature and 
treatment of glanders. Mr. Percivall, in the third volume of his 
“ Lectures, 1 ’ has presented us with a summary of the somewhat 
earlier, but never generally admitted theory of Dupuy; and in 
the preceding lecture, and for the avow T ed purpose of comparison, 
he has favoured his readers with a full and very correct state¬ 
ment of the doctrines taught at St. Pancras on this subject. 
These “ Lectures’ 1 are in the hands of most of our subscribers, 
and justly estimated by them. 
It may be amusing to hear how our forefathers set to work 
with these untractable diseases. We lately met with a curious 
account of this in one of the Harleian MSS., dated 1722 :— 
First , of the Local Treatment of Farcie. 
Take new pigeon’s doung and white wine vinegar, and mingle 
soe much of the vinegar as will, beating and stirring, make it as 
thicke as oyle. Then take yellowe arsenic and pounde it very 
fine and small. Then take it betweene your fingers, and as you 
beate the vinegar and doung together, let it fall in by little and 
little, until you have put in soe much as to make it of a scarlett 
collour; and then put in noe more, for it is strong ennoughe, but 
beate it well together, and with these anoynt the sore, and tye it 
uppe, and dry it with a hot barr of iron, and this in one dressing 
will cure it; except you see new knots to rise, then dresse them 
in the same manner. 
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