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Rh herbs applied warm to the parts affected, by way of poultice.

In the course of two or three days, it may be ascertained whether a suppuration will follow; in which case the tumors increase in size, and feel soft in the middle, when pressed by the hand. This is a favourable symptom; but if the swellings continue hard, without fluctuation, and are accompanied with a running from the nose, every precaution ought to be taken; as otherwise the disease may become troublesome. Hence, it will be necessary to prepare a vapour-bath, consisting of rosemary, lavender-flowers, and sweet marjoram, a handful of each boiled in two or three quarts of water. This is to be put into a pail, and the animal's head held over it twice a day, as near as can be borne, and for such length of time as the vapour passing up the nostrils is supposed to operate in the manner of an internal fomentation. During the whole treatment, the horse's head ought to be kept warm, as it will greatly contribute to the discharge of the noxious humours.

In case the running from the nose continue to increase, becoming progressively more discoloured, the above stated vapour-bath should be continued, and the eighth part of a pint of the following mixture injected into one or both of the nostrils, lukewarm, three or four times in the course of 24 hours: Take an ounce of linseed, half an ounce of chamomile-flowers, the same quantity of elder-flowers, and three pints of water. The whole is to be boiled for a few minutes and strained; but, previously to its application, it ought to be properly mixed with four ounces of Mel Ægyptiacum, the recipe of which was given in the article.

Should the discharge, at length, become so malignant as to afford reason to apprehend a caries of the bones, the fumigation and injection must be continued, and two or three drams of the following mercurial ointment rubbed info the glandular tumors, every evening, for a fortnight; cutting away all superfluous hair, that the mercurial particles may be more effectually absorbed, and carried into circulation: Take one ounce of crude mercury, and half an ounce of Venice turpentine; let them be mixed together in a mortar, adding a few grains of sulphur, to facilitate the union of the ingredients; then gradually mix with them two ounces of melted and lukewarm hog's-lard, and cover the vessel closely; the unguent being now fit for use.—This is the last remedy that can be applied, with any prospect of success; and, if it unfortunately fail, the most rational farriers are of opinion, that the animal should be killed, without farther delay; as the skin will then be its only valuable part.  GLASS, a solid, transparent, brittle substance, produced by melting together sand, flint, alkaline salts, &c. besides which, there are various saline matters employed, namely, Pulverine, or rochetta, which is prepared from Glasswort, or Salsola Kali, an indigenous plant; but which is chiefly imported from the Levant, where it is cut down in the summer, dried in the sun, and burned in heaps, when the ashes fall into a pit, where they concrete into a hard mass. A similar salt is obtained from the ashes  of the Fucus vesiculosus, or Common