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REMEDY FOR HEAVES. 



Take one pound and a half good ginger. Give two 

 table spoonsful a day — one in the morning and tha 

 •other ill the evening, mixed with wheat bran. Thi« 

 recipe has been sold repeatedly for $o Qt the eastward, 

 where its efficacy has been proved by the cure of sev- 

 eral cases of obstinate heaves. 



Another for Heaves. — Take four gills of calf's blood 

 and as much flour of nitre as will lay on a six-penny 

 piece. Let the blood be fresh. Put it into a boLtle, 

 and set it into a ketile of warm water, and bring the 

 blood to a stale not quite as warm as a natural heat. — 

 Give the horse as much as you can get down, and if at 

 first you do not give the whole, put the bottle into the 

 warm water aaain, shake it, and then pour down the 

 remainder. Give the same every other day until three 

 doses have been given. This is a sure remedy, and 

 the person from whom the recipe was procured, ha* 

 recommendations of several gentlernen of distinction, 

 whose horses were cured by him, in the manner above 

 directed. 



CURE FOR BROKEN WIND. 



Take a shovelful of unslacked lime and put it in a 

 tub oi vvater. Give your horse a bucket full every day, 

 and it will effect a cure. 



SPRAINS. 



The following recipe for sprains in any part of the 

 tiorse, was communicated by a Circus Groom, who 

 never knew it to fail; Take one ounce of saltpetre in 

 half a pint of high wines, and rub the part affected,' 

 and bathe it in with a hot shovel. 



SHOULDER SPRAIN. 



This is also communicated by f}ie same ; Cut a 

 small hole through the skin on the shoulder blade, and 

 with a quill blow m until it swells ; then rub Jt down 

 with the hand. Continue thu^ blowing and rubbing 

 for some time, and it wii! be found an efTectnal reme- 

 dy. Of course, put a sij-npJe sticking pln^ter, such as 

 Peleg White's, over th*? wound, if there is danger of 

 taking cold. 



