108 MODERN FARRIER. 



found excellent in cures of stings by hornets or 

 wasps. If internal medicine is requisite, the follow- 

 ing may be given : 



Mithridate, - - - 1 ounce. 

 Salt of tartar, - - - 2 drachms. 



Dissolve them in a pint of rue tea, and then add — 



Salad oil, - - - - 4 ounces. 



To be given about milk- warm. 



65. The Tooth-ache. 



Mr. Richard Lawrence observes, that this com- 

 plaint proceeds from the canker in the grinders : the 

 best cure in this case is immediately to punch out 

 the afflicted grinder or tooth. The canker is gene- 

 rally owing to the bridle being rusty, and may 

 easily be known by the little black blotches, or 

 brown specks, which appear on the tongue, or other 

 parts of the mouth. If not caused by the bridle-bit, 

 like the scurvy in the human frame, it proceeds 

 from bad diet, or may be deemed hereditary, and 

 then it appears in small white specks, and will, in 

 time, spread nearly over the whole of the mouth, 

 and occasion irregular ulcers. The following gargle 

 mixture will be found in this care an effectual cure : 



Wine vinegar, - - half a pint. 



Burnt alum, - , 1 ounce. 



Common salt, - - 1 ounce. 



Bole armenic, - - half an ounce. 



Mix and shake the whole in a bottle for use. 



With this mixture the horse's mouth should be 

 Pressed every morning and evening in the following 

 manner: 



Take a small cane, or piece of whalebone, half a 

 yard long, and tie a linen rag, or a piece of tow, 

 round one end ; then dip it into the mixture, and 



