Tincture of anconite root, one ounce 

 Fluid extract belladona, one ounce. 



Quinine, one-half ounce, rubbed down in one-halt 

 ounce of sulphuric acid. 



Put this all in a pint of water and give twelve doses, i 

 drachm, or teaspoonful back on his tongue, not remaining 

 up at night. The horse should be walked at least two 

 hours daily. Moderate plowing all day is the best exer- 

 cise to prevent stiffness. The oil you use when castrating 

 ridglings should be pure olive oil, and to one pint add one 

 ounce of carbolic acid. Your hands should be well washed, 

 first with anticeptic solution, one to two-thousandth parts, 

 then well oiled with this only; then insert your*hand and do 

 your operation. 



Have the incisions on ridglings opened well up, four or 

 five inches high, just before they are walked morning and 

 evening, so as to let all serum drop out, and thereby pre- 

 vent all swelling, as it is called, when in fact it should be 

 called neglect to open up the cuts five inches high for five 

 days. Stallions and plain colts would do better in retain- 

 ing flesh, and make a better recovery if they were opened 

 twice daily for five days three inches high. My forte, if I 

 have any, is with a set of old ropes, casting and tying stock, 

 and trying to cut or spay them, of which I am now trying to 

 tell you my favorite methods. I castrate mules the same 

 as I do horses, but I never saw a mule with a testicle in the 

 belly, except one hermaphrodite that I altered. I have 

 successfully castrated nine or ten hermaphrodite mares, 

 finding several just like number two ridglings; others were 

 as double number three ridglings, except the mammary 

 glands were of the usual size for mares; I never knew one 

 to die. I have cut them from four months old up to four 



years old. 



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