126 EVERY MAN HIS OWN FARRIER 



RECIPE No. 13. 



New-laid eggs, with their shells, two; 

 Milk, one pint. 



Mix, and give it new-milk-warm, two or three times a day, until 

 the scouring ceases. 



If these means fail, an ounce of diascordium elec- 

 tuary should be given every morninj^ ; and if, notwith- 

 standing all that you have done, the excrement becomes 

 bloody and fetid, give one of the following, every 

 morning, for a few days : — 



RECIPE No. 14. 



Or, 



Diascordium electuary, one ounce ; 



Good red wine, a wine-glass ftdl. 



RECIPE No. 15. 



Diascordium electuary, one ounce ; 

 Elder-flower water, a wine-glassful; 



Crude sal-ammoniac, half a dram. 



Dissolve the sal-ammoniac in the elder-flower water, and then 

 add the electuary : mix, and give. 



If feverish symptoms accompany or appear in this 

 complaint, or if the calf lie down, kick at its belly, 

 and appear in pain, take away half a pint of blood, 

 or more, if the age of the calf will allow it, and give 

 the following purgative, with a teaspoonful of lauda- 

 num therein. 



RECIPE No. 16. 



Glauber salts, three ounces ; 



Powdered ginger, half an ounce; 



Aniseeds, fresh powdered, half an ounce ; 



Treacle, two tablespoonsftiL 



