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Eosin : This is the residue left from the distillation of turpentine, and is 

 used by horsemen quite freely, and many times is the cause of much mischief, 

 as it is used to a considerable extent to cause the horse to urinate more freely, 

 and in over-doses so frequently given, is often the cause of various diseases of 

 the kidneys and loins. The oftener rosin is given the horse, the more he 

 stands in need of it in the eyes of the driver. The kidneys become over- 

 worked ; lie desires to urinate more frequently ; less urine is voided at each 

 time. The mischief is not seen, and the owner hastens to give more rosin, 

 thinking to remedy tlie defect that he has been instrumental in ])roducing. 

 It should be remembered that powerful diuretics, like powerful purgatives, 

 tend only to weaken and debilitate. If there be a urinary defect, find out the 

 cause, and, if possible, have it removed, and the effect will cease ; but do not 

 attempt to do so by force, against all science and common sense. — Kendall. 



Ladies and gentlemen, that is good enough for me, and what Doctor Kendall 

 says in regard to rosin, will apply as well to the sweet spirits of nitre. I quote 

 Kendall because I presume that many of you have his book, for its sale was 

 somewhat pushed in this State a few years ago, and is a valuable hand-book 

 for horsemen, if the doses that he prescribes are very much reduced. 



I will mention only one other remedy in this connection, and that is 

 antimony. Mr. Kendall says this is by many considered a remarkable remedy 

 for the horse for many purposes, but especially to make the horse shine, and 

 to have the appearance of being quite fat. 



The fact is, brother farmers, it causes the horse to have a bloated appear- 

 ance; dropsical swellings of the body and legs. It causes eruptions on the 

 body of a pustulous character, when given a long time in large doses ; and 

 perhaps there is no medicine we have that will cure blotches and pimples on 

 the skin of the horse, when properly indicated, than this one; and probably 

 there is no other medicine used in the medical treatment of animals, that has 

 caused so much mischief as this, unless, perhaps, it may be sulphur. Now we 

 will suppose we are called to prescribe for a case, with symptoms like this : 

 Legs swelled considerably ; pustular eruptions on all the legs, from the foot to 

 the knee on the fore legs, and from the foot to the gambrel or hock on the 

 anterior extremities; a sanous fluid oozing from the same, forming into scabs, 

 that easily rub off; anasarcial swellings of the abdominal region, extending the 

 whole length of the horse, from the hind to the forward extremities, with 

 eruptions of the same character on the same ; swelling of the glands between 

 the fore legs, with urinary difficulties, and irregularity of the bowels. The 

 horse so stiff that he could hardly be moved from the stable. I hear you say 

 farcy, but we may have just such symptoms, and yet not a true case of farcy, 

 but which will eventually lead to farcy if not arrested by proper treatment. 



You ask what is the proper treatment of such a case. Now, the symptoms 

 point directly to sulphur, do they not? And sulphur would be the proper 

 medicine if your animal was not already under the influence of the drug. I 

 was called to see just such a case some four or five years ago, and the 

 symptoms above described were those of this very animal. I looked the 

 animal over, and asked how long the mare had been in this condition — this 

 was in the month of March ; the answer was, that the first time that he 

 noticed anything of it, was when he was putting in his wheat in the fall, when 

 he observed that her legs stocked some nights, and by-and-by symptoms of 

 scratches appeared, when he gave her a few doses of condition powders, and 

 applied litherage to the sores and dried them up, and after seeding turned her 

 out, and did not see anything more of the trouble until after he had taken her 



