OF KAKRIERY. 



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For internal medicines, an immense number 

 have been tried, I believe, all the mineral 

 and vegetable poisons, and with some ex- 

 cellent effect ; but the variety being great, 

 you cannot always hit upon the right one ; 

 therefore, I shall not enter into a long detail, 

 but at once present you with the formula that 

 I have been in the habit of using, all of which 

 I have found good. 



Take Cantharides - - 5 grains. 

 Arsenic _ _ - 4 do. 

 Sulphate of iron - 1 dram. 

 Gentian - - 1 do. 



Ginger - - 1 do. 



Form into a ball with soft soap. 



Give one every morning, first thing. Or, 



Take Corrosive sublimate 4 grains. 

 Sulphate of iron - 2 drams. 

 Form into a convenient sized ball, with 

 linseed meal and soft soap. 



Give every morning, Or, 



Mix together for one ball, with a little oil of 

 turpentine, and give one every second morn- 

 ing. Great care must be taken to watch the 

 Horse, that he do not become salivated ; if 

 either of the foregoing prescriptions should 

 appear to take the Horse's appetite away, let 



him remain for a day or two, without the 

 commencing it again. During the exhibition 

 of these medicines, the Horse should be well 

 kept, feeding him without a sparing hand. 

 You may occasionally dissolve an ounce of 

 nitre in his morning water, as he will then be 

 most likely to drink. A little green meat will 

 be good for him ; and when you perceive him 

 getting better, get him a run at grass in some 

 place handy, and give him a feed of corn 

 morning and evening. Speared malt is ex- 

 cellent for them at this time ; also, if you take 

 about a tea-cupful of linseed, and pour on it 

 a quart of boiling water; taking also, and 

 mixing with it, eight or nine good potatoes, 

 well boiled and worked up together, give this 

 with his corn at his middle-day feed. Should 

 he at first refuse it, do not be disheartened, he 

 will take to it in a short time ; and the benefit 

 arising from it will surprise you. Carrots are 

 very good, chopped up fine ; also turnips of 

 the Swedish kind, as they contain more sac- 

 charine matter than any other ; also parsnips, 

 a few at a time ; for if given in quantities, are 

 apt to grille. The treatment, as practised at 

 the Royal Veterinary College, is by adminis- 

 tering, from two to five drams of sulphate of 

 copper, in solution, in about a pint of water ; 

 increasing or decreasing the dose, as circum- 

 stances may require; and also applying a 

 solution of the same sulphate, in the quantity 

 of two ounces to a pint of water, to the sores 

 daily. 



