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have beeen steeped for two or three 

 weeks, sprinkled on gardens, will 

 subdue the worms. The water of 

 salt springs may be used with great 

 advantage by those who are near 

 them. Those who are remote 

 from them, and from the sea, ma} 

 use salt and water, and such other 

 antidotes as they can most easily 

 procure. 



When worms breed in horses, it 

 arises from weak digestion, or a 

 vitiated appetite. To cure a horse 

 of hots : 



" Take quicksilver two drams ; Ve- 

 nice turpentine half an ounce ; 

 rub the quicksilver till no glisten- 

 ing appears; then take an ounce 

 of aloes, a dram of grated gin- 

 ger, thirty drops of oil of savin, 

 and syrup of buckthorn enough 

 to make the whole into a ball. 

 "One of these balls may be given 

 every six days, with the usual pre- 

 cautions with regard to mercurial 

 physic : And the following powders 

 intermediately. 



" Take powdered tin and ^ithiops 

 mineral, of each an ounce; and 

 give it every night in a mash, or 

 in his corn. 



" These medicines, or any of the 

 various preparations of antimony 

 and mercury, should be continued 

 several weeks together, in order to 

 free the animal entirely from these 

 vermin." — BartlcOs Farrieri/. 



WOUND, a hurt given by vio- 

 lence. 



" In all fresh wounds made by 

 cutting instruments, there is no- 

 thing more required than bringing 

 the lips of the wound into contact 

 by sutuie or bandage, provided the 

 part will allow of it ; for on wounds 



of the hips, or other prominent 

 parts, and across some ol the large 

 muscles, the stitches are apt to 

 burst on the horse's lying down and 

 rising up in the stall. In such 

 cases, the lips should not be brought 

 close together. One stitch is siitfi- 

 cient for a wound two inches 

 long ; but in large wounds may be 

 at an inch or more distance ; and 

 if the wound is deep in the mus- 

 cles, care should be taken to pass 

 the needles proportionably deep, 

 otherwise the wound will not unite 

 properly at the bottom. 



" Should the wound bleed much 

 from an artery divided, the tirst 

 step should be to secure it, by pass- 

 ing a crooked needle underneath, 

 and tying it up with a waxed thread. 

 If the artery cannot be got at this 

 way, apply a button of lint or tow 

 to the mouth of the bleeding ves- 

 sel, dipped in a strong solution of 

 blue vitriol, styptic water, oil of 

 vitriol, or hot oil of turpentine, 

 powdered vitriol, or colcothar, &c. 

 and remember always to apply it 

 close to the mouth of the bleeding 

 vessels, and take care that it is 

 kept there by proper compress and 

 bandage, till an eschar is formed ; 

 otherwise it will elude your expec- 

 tations, and frequently alarm you 

 with fresh bleedings. 



" In a healthy and sound consti- 

 tution, nature furnishes the best 

 balsam, and performs herself the 

 cure, which is so often attributed 

 to medicine. When it is other- 

 wise, and the blood is deprived of 

 its balsamic state, as will appear 

 from the aspect of the wound, and 

 its manner of healing, it must be 

 rectitied by proper internal mcdi- 



