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 wetted with the same, bracing the part up with a firm bandage.

If this method, after proper trial, should not be found to succeed, authors have advised that the swelling be pierced with an awl, or opened with a knife; but mild blistering is in general preferred to these methods; the included fluids being thereby drawn off, the impacted air dispersed, and the tumour gradually diminished. A little of the blistering ointment should be laid on every other day for a week, which brings on a plentiful discharge, but generally in a few days is dried up, when the horse may be put to his usual work, and the blistering ointment renewed in that manner once a month or oftener as the horse can be spared from business, till the cure is completed. This is the only method to prevent scars, which firing of course leaves behind and unless skillfully executed, too often likewise a fulness of the joint, with stiffness. The mild blistering ointment, where the sublimate is left out is the properest for this purpose.

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BOIL in six gallons of water eighteen pounds of either white Havana or loaf sugar, for half an hour, carefully taking off the scum as it rises, and pour it boiling hot over two gallons of fine large white currants, picked from the stalks, but not bruised. On the liquor's becoming near the temperature of new milk, ferment it with some good ale yest; and after suffering it to work for two days, strain it through a flannel bag into a barrel, which it should completely fill with half an ounce of well bruised isinglass. On its ceasing to ferment, immediately bottle it off, and put in each bottle a lump of double refined sugar.