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coal oil, or tar and grease, with or without a mixture of 

 lime, or a small quantity of spirits of tar as the rule, I 

 use Swedish tar or lime. 



Leech in the Liver Flucke. No cure. The free use 

 of salt is a preventive. 



Hove. Salt is a preventive ; it is also a cure. A 

 dessert-spoonful dissolved in water is often effectual ; or 

 still more effectual is half a drachm of chloride of lime ; 

 and in extreme cases l tapping ' between the last rib and 

 the point of the hip. I have, however, found that in 

 ordinary cases, taken in time, a good hard rubbing on 

 the distended parts, or even running the animals about, 

 suffices to give relief. 



Costiveness and Fulness of Blood, with dulness and gid- 

 diness. In these cases the following purgatives may be 

 administered, say 2 oz. Epsom salts, with a little ginger, 

 or 2 oz. linseed oil in Unseed gruel. When the giddiness 

 is considerable, and the animal evidently much oppressed, 

 bleeding is desirable in the neck or leg, if the party un- 

 derstand it ; if not, cut a joint off the tail, and if that fails 

 to bleed (which in a far gone case it may), I have found 

 a cut across the nose have the desired effect. This fulness 

 of blood and vertigo arises from too luxuriant pasture in 

 the spring of the year. 



Spasmodic Colic. 

 Ginger . . . . . i . 1 drachm 



Epsom salts 3 



Opium 2 or 3 grs. 



(Repeat if required.) 



Dysentery. 



Linseed oil 2 oz. 



Opium (powder) 2 grs. 



(Repeat with less quantity of the oil.) 



Inflammation of the Lungs. Bleeding, purgatives, 



