238 ON NICKING. 



(RECIPE, No. 172.) 



Compound Digestive Mixture, 



Take — Egyptiacum, four ounces ; 



Spirit of turpentine, three ounces; 

 Tincture of benzoin, one ounce : 

 Put them hi a bottle, and shake them well to- 

 gether when used. 



A small dossel of tow must be dipped in this 

 mixture and applied lengthwise on each wound, 

 . and tied up with laps of tow or old linen cloth, 

 as before : and, in about two hours after the tail 

 has been dressed, let the horse be put into the 

 pullies ; take care that you do not hang too heavy 

 a weight on the pulley the first day, as it is apt 

 to make him startle, and thereby some have broken 

 their tails. 



The chief art in making a horse to carry his 

 tail suitably to the wish of the owner, consists in 

 the proper care and management during the first 

 week he is put in the pulley. The pullies should 

 be fixed about a yard above the horse's shoulders, 

 in order to bring the end of his tail within four or 

 five inches of the croup. The method of fixing it 

 must be according to the position of the horse. 



If he is placed on one side of his standing more 



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