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same as occasion may require. While you do this, give 

 every morning the following : 



Powdered gentian root, half an ounce. 



Powdered ginger, one drachm. 



Epsom salts, two ounces. 



In a pint of warm gruel. 



At night, give 



Calomel, one scruple. 



Opium, one scruple, in thick gruel, well mixed. 



After the yellowness is gone, give the above gentian 

 root dose twice a week for a month. 



HORN AIL. 



The following is from the pen of a disting uished Veter- 

 inary surgeon, and is worthy of particular notice. We 

 copy it from the " Farmers' Cabinet :" 



HORN AIL. Having persuaded myself that the prac- 

 tice of boring horns and applying spirits of turpentine, etc., 

 in the disease called Horn Ail, (which is so very preva- 

 lent in America,) is entirely wrong in principle, and has 

 the most pernicious consequences in practice ; I deem it 

 not improper to recommend, by the means of your valua- 

 ble periodical, a system of cure by which, during a long 

 veterinary practice, both in France and Philadelphia, 

 New-York and Harrisburgh, I have been successful in 

 most cases ; while, by the common way of proceeding, no 

 animal is saved, some either not having been attacked by 

 that disease, or getting cured by nature itself. 



This disease is also called the " red- water," or blood 

 in the back or loins, and arises principally from the cattle 

 being at grass during the summer on lots which are very 

 dry and without shade, and from their being exposed to 

 excessive heat of the sun, and to great cold in winter 

 time ; there are various other causes, as moory pastures, 



