The sportsman's dictionary : or, The gentleman's companion: for town and countryContaining full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling ..With the various methods to be observed in breeding and dieting of horses ..And the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents . obfervingthat if the flefii be very luxuriant, to pare itdown with the knife, before you walh thewound. And by this application alone, youmay often cure the poll-evil, without thetrouble and expence of other medicines. But the fhorteft method of curing thisdifeafe, is what the farriers call fcalding;and
The sportsman's dictionary : or, The gentleman's companion: for town and countryContaining full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling ..With the various methods to be observed in breeding and dieting of horses ..And the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents . obfervingthat if the flefii be very luxuriant, to pare itdown with the knife, before you walh thewound. And by this application alone, youmay often cure the poll-evil, without thetrouble and expence of other medicines. But the fhorteft method of curing thisdifeafe, is what the farriers call fcalding;and this will fucceed when the wound is foul,of a bad difpofition, and a large flux of mat-ter. The fcalding mixture, generally ufed,is made in the following manner: Take ofcorrofive fublimate, verdigreafe in fine pow-der, and Roman vitriol, of each twodrachms; of green vitriol, or copperas, halfan ounce; of oil of turpentine and trainoil, of each eight ounces j and of resSbifiedfpirits of wine, four ounces : mix the wholetogether in a bottle. This is the ftrongeft compofition of whatis termed the fcalding mixture : and veryoften a milder will be fuflicient, which maybe made by changing the corrofive fubli-mate for red precipitate, and the Roman forwhite vitriol. • The Qziail^f rr^/rlTTT. M. 1
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