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pint of water ; or glycerine may be used with advantage. 

 Before using the wash, have the foot well cleaned with 

 castile soap and water. 



Thrush. — Wash the feet well with soap and water, and 

 sprinkle a small quantity of pulverized sulphate of cop- 

 per in the cleft, and secure it by pressing a little raw cot- 

 ton. 



Canker. — Take equal parts of pine tar and lard, add 

 sulphuric acid while melting; apply to foot; or use col- 

 lodion, ^ oz.; castor oil, 1 oz.; mix and apply to tho 

 parts. 



Scratches. — Wash parts in soap and water, and apply 

 once a day ; Collodion, ^ oz,; castor oil, 1 oz.; or apply 

 once a week a saturated solution of bichloride of mercury. 



Grease Heels. — Give a ball of Barbadoes aloes, 1 oz.; 

 pulverized gentian root, 2 drs.; pulverized ginger, 1 dr.; 

 water sufficient to make the ball. Wash the parts well, 

 and poultice for two or three days with the following : 

 Flaxseed meal mixed with a solution of 2 drs. sulphate zinc 

 to a pail of water % bathe frequently with glycerine, or a 

 solution of zinc, or a solution of chloride of lime. 



Water Farcy. — Give one of the following powders, 

 night and morning, ii^ the feed: Sulphate of iron, 2 oz., 

 nitrate of potassa, 1 oz.; pulverized gentian, 1 oz.; pul- 

 verized ginger, 6 drs.; anise-seed, ground, ^ oz.; mix and 

 divide into eight powders ; or sulphate of copper, nitrate 

 of potassa, and pulverized gentian, of each 1 oz.; pulver- 

 ized ginger, ^ oz.; anise-seed, ground, 6 dsr.; mix and di- 

 vide into eight powders. Rub hard and exercise moder- 

 ately. 



