;—a name given to SPIRITUOUS, VOLATILE, or SATURNINE applications in a liquid form; either as corroborants, stimulants, repellents, &c. and in most cases they are doubly efficacious, if their use is preceded by sponges dipt in a hot decoction, prepared from those garden aromatics called "FOMENTATION HERBS."
EMOLLIENTS
—are such external applications as mollify the surface, and alleviate any stricture upon the surrounding parts: they supple the solids, as well as sheath and soften any asperity of the fluids. Fomentations are of this class, and prove of the greatest utility in all tumefactions, enlargements, and many lamenesses of HORSES, with those practitioners who have judgment and patience to bring them perseveringly into use. From the relaxing property of emollient topics, and their sheathing of acrimony, it is that they are good sedative applications, when pain from tension or irritation is excited: from nervous sympathy, their efficacy is conveyed to distant and deep-seated parts, and thus it is that the warm bath proves in most cases so powerful a sedative. Emollients, whether in the use of fomentations, or the application of poultices, by relaxing the fibres, and increasing the congestion of fluids, greatly promote suppuration, to effect which in all inflammatory tumours, they should be immediately brought into use.
ENTRANCE of HORSES
—is the ceremony of entering horses (at the particular places appointed) on a certain day previous to the races at any city, borough, or town, where the plates to be run for are given and advertised. Horses intended to run, are "to be SHEWN and ENTERED," paying two or three guineas "entrance money," (according to the custom of the place,) and in general five shillings to the CLERK of THE COURSE. For all plates given by His Majesty, or his R. H. the P. of Wales, no other entrance money is permitted, or paid, but the before-mentioned fee to the clerk of the course.
ENTRANCE of HOUNDS
—is the introduction of young hounds to the PACK; with whom, at a proper age, they are incorporated, for their initiation in the kind of chase to which they are then to become appropriate. This is a matter so truly professional, and so entirely dependent upon the judgment of the HUNTSMAN and his attendants, that neither instruction or entertainment can be derived from literary description.
EPILEPSY
,—a disorder in horses, bearing some similitude to APOPLEXY and STAGGERS; for which the same medical means are applied for relief.