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result. With young horses, the first or second time of treatment 
frequently proves successful, but with old horses it is different; 
and many a good and useful, but old horse, is condemned as unfit 
for service, and too old to undergo the severer operation of 
firing. 
The treatment I have found to be the most successful has been 
this:—Commencing with the ordinary treatment, say for from 
seven to fourteen days, so that there shall be some portion of the 
contents absorbed, rest alone would do this, but it is greatly 
accelerated by the cold or antiphlogistic treatment. During the 
latter part of this premonitory treatment, a liniment similar to the 
following— 
Linit. saponis simplex. Jiij 
Oleum terebinthinae . 
(to which may be added a portion of the tinctura lyttse, or oleum 
origani—this may be made stronger or weaker, according to the 
effect desired to be produced, but it is not desirable to employ it 
too strong) should be well rubbed into the affected part twice 
a-day, until a scurf is raised upon the skin. In about half an hour 
after the application of the liniment, continue the cold applications, 
either by bandage or otherwise, as may be the most suitable to 
the part under treatment. This stimulating and cooling plan, adopted 
simultaneously, may be looked at as blowing hot and cold at the 
same time, and that the cold, by being longer continued, would 
put out the hot; yet this will prove not to be the case, but the 
very reverse. The stimulant which I have recommended will 
actually produce a better effect than if the cold treatment had not 
been employed, and one who had never seen such a plan in opera¬ 
tion would hardly believe how fine the leg gets under it. The 
object I had in view in devising this method was to obtain a 
longer period during which I could employ the stimulant without 
destroying its action ; and in both I have generally found that I 
have succeeded: I also found, what I at first did not altogether 
look for, that the rubefacient, by this plan, produced a much 
deeper-seated action, which was one object I was also seeking, 
though I did not expect to find it in this stage. 
This course having been pursued as far as may be deemed 
desirable, and there is reason to believe that the horse will 
not stand sound, then I resort to the next stage in my treatment; 
and that is, to have the leg carefully washed from any grease or 
scurf: then with a brush apply to the enlargement, and a margin 
of about an inch beyond it, the following mixture— 
Spt. vini rect. Jj. 
Hydrargyri oxymur. 3j. 
(Put the mercury into a stoneware mortar; rub it into a fine powder; 
