368 RECIPES. 
FOR POLE EVIL, OR THISTELOW. 
Make a strong decoction of sweet flag roots, and syringe 
out the wound well with it twice a day till cured. Or take 
one-half ounce corrosive sublimate, one ounce potash, pulver- 
ize them together—make a probe of whalebone or tough 
hickory, wind the end with ravelled silk, moisten it, role it 
in the powder, and run it down the tube. Be sure and get 
- some of the powder to the bottom of the pipe. Probe it 
and put in the powder till you can pull out the pipe, Then 
put in one table-spoonful of spirits turpentine, and wash it 
out with castile soap suds a few times. Then wast once a 
day with the Pain Extractor, 
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-- FOR WIND AND BLOOD sPavins. ~*~ 
Bleed the horse in the leg below the gambrel joint ; then 
boil salt, let it cool, and take one-half pint of the scum, one- 
fourth pound tobacco, and one-fourth pound southern wood, 
and boil them together in one quart of water. Wash the 
joint with it four or five times a day. They have been cured 
in three weeks, You must put it on hot, but not to scald. 
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ae FOR THE POLE EVIL, OR THISTELOW. 
= Drop in the pipe a few drops of the oil of vitriol, and re- 
peat it till you: pull out the pipe. Be careful and get it 
all out. Then wash it with cold water once a day, and anoint 
it with the Pain Extractor once a day. After ten minutes, 
anoint it with an ointment made of two ounces of sweet el- 
der bark steeped i in one pint of sweet cream, with two ounces 
of white pine bark and one-half ounce of alum. Follow 
this up and it will effect a cure, 
