The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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Those horses having the greatest quantity of hair upon their legs are
the most subject to this malady, where it remains a long time obscured
from the eye of the MASTER; as it is not to be expected, a discovery
will be made, and communicated, by a servant, in palpable proof of his
own _neglect_ and _indolence_. If the part inveterately affected is
covered with hair, either totally or partially, it must be taken off as
close as possible, before any attempt at cure is made; that done, a
patient fomentation of hot gruel, a decoction of linseed, or mallow
roots and leaves, should be persevered in for a quarter of an hour
daily, letting, however, the process of soft soap and warm water be
adopted on the first day, continuing one of the before-mentioned
fomentations every day after. When the scabs or eschars are completely
softened, got loose, and begin to exfoliate, the parts may be well
impregnated with camphorated SPERMA CÆTI LINIMENT every day after the
fomentation; but not before the part is made properly dry to receive it.
If the subject is supposed to have an acrimonious tendency in the blood,
or displays the least appearance of cutaneous eruption in any other part
of the body, the best method will be to put him upon a course of
ANTIMONIAL ALTERATIVES, which he will consume with his corn without
farther trouble.
MALLOWS,—as well as MARSH-MALLOWS, are ingredients so useful and
efficacious in fomentations, and emollient cataplasms, upon various
unexpected emergencies, that the house of a SPORTSMAN in the country
should never be without them.
MALT, GROUND—is an article of the utmost utility when incorporated with
an equal quantity of bran, and given in a mash to horses labouring under
cough, bodily debility, (from over fatigue,) or disease; it possesses
the property of invigoration, is highly nutritive; and, by its
attracting fragrancy, horses are induced to take it in small quantities,
during the progress of dangerous diseases, when they refuse every other
kind of food. Mashes thus made, and given nightly, are useful in
promoting CONDITION, as well as a proper vehicle for ALTERATIVE powders,
or during the operation of PHYSIC.
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