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Mix in one quart of boiling water. 



Divide the above into four parts, and give it once in six 

 hours. 



As soon as the bowels are well open, give the follow, 

 ing, every day : 



Powdered ginger, one drachm. 



Powdered gentian root, one drachm. 



Spirits of nitre, one drachm. 



Mix in a pint of gruel. 



Sometimes it will be necessary to take away a little 

 blood, before giving any medicine. If the urine should 

 continue to be black, an ounce of nitre may be given with 

 the above drink. 



The following, taken from the London Farmer's Jour- 

 nal, is highly recommended ; it may be well to try it. 



" For a full grown cow dissolve two pounds epsom salts 

 in two or three pints of boiling water, and give it when 

 new-milk warm ; then keep her six or eight hours without 

 food. If then the salts should have not operated, give 

 four or five quarts of warm water, and drive her about 

 gently ; in a quarter of an hour it will operate ; then give 

 her as much warm water as she will drink, and turn her 

 out to graze, if the weather be dry. My brother, J. 

 Waistell, of West Park, has used the above remedy for 

 upward of thirty years, and has not in all that time lost 

 one beast by the red- water. Before he commenced using 

 it, he almost invariably lost cattle annually by that disease. 

 His cattle were less frequently afflicted than formerly, 

 which he attributes to his having underdrained a great 

 part of his farm, which was wet and boggy. The reme- 

 dy was communicated tc him by a relation, Mr. Kendall, 

 a cow-keeper, who for many years kept many cows, and 

 occupied part of Mary-le-bone Park, at London " 

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