. The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease. lard (free from salt), 16 oz. Mix thecantharides, resin, and lard together, and heat in awater-bath for eight hours; then remove, strain, and setaside to cool a little ; next add the turpentine and origa-num ; agitate thoroughly, after which allow the whole toset. To ensure the speedy action of a blistering ointment,first clip the hair closely by means of sharp scissors or anefficient clipping machine. Over the part thus denudedthe ointment is to be spread in successive quantities, each1 eing thoroughly rubbed in, and at the clo
. The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease. lard (free from salt), 16 oz. Mix thecantharides, resin, and lard together, and heat in awater-bath for eight hours; then remove, strain, and setaside to cool a little ; next add the turpentine and origa-num ; agitate thoroughly, after which allow the whole toset. To ensure the speedy action of a blistering ointment,first clip the hair closely by means of sharp scissors or anefficient clipping machine. Over the part thus denudedthe ointment is to be spread in successive quantities, each1 eing thoroughly rubbed in, and at the close a thin layershould be evenly spread over. Great judgment is re-quired as to the quantity used. Finely bred animals donot tolerate m©re than half the quantity required by alarge, coarse draught horse. An excess, therefore, willdo harm by exciting undue irritation, and probably leadto ugly blemishing, besides augmenting the originalmalady. CAUSTICS. Substances capable of producing chemical action uponthe living tissues are termed caustics. The effect is equi-. The Budding Iron. valent to burning or decomposition. They are of twokinds—the actual cautery, or iron heated to redness; and 160 Materia-Medica. the potential cautery•, viz., mineral and chemical agents,as caustic soda, caustic potash, and lunar caustic, or nitrateof silver. The heated iron is often the most useful, con-trollable, and effective form of cautery, being employedfor stimulating indolent wounds, repressing too luxuriantgranulations, abscising tumours, or parts destroyed bysloughing, and arresting bleeding from an artery, & usual form is the firing iron, and the budding iron,as shown in the annexed figures. 1. Caustic Potash is conveniently sold in the form ofpencils, having been fused and run into suitable holder is required for using it. In action it is promptand powerful; but as it so quickly absorbs moisture fromthe atmosphere and becomes fluid, it proves unmanage-able and expensive. 2.
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