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These remedies require moderate exercise in clothing to bring out their 

 effects, after which the horse should be wisped till quite dry. 



DIGESTIVES 



Digestives are applications which promote suppuration, and the healing 

 of wounds or ulcers. 



74. Digestive Ointment— 



Red Precipitate 2 ounces. 



Venice Turpentine 3 ounces. 



Beeswax 1 ounce. 



Hog's Lard 4 ounces. 



Melt the three last ingredients over a slow fire, and when nearly cold stir in the 

 powder. 



The resin ointment of the British Pharmacopoeia is that now in general 

 use, but it is rather too stiff for convenient application, and many veterinaiy 

 surgeons employ less wax or more oil. 



DIURETICS 



Diuretics are medicines which promote the secretion and discharge of 

 urine, the effect being produced in a different manner by different medicines ; 

 some acting directly upon the kidneys by sympathy with the stomach, while 

 others are taken up by the blood-vessels, and in their elimination from the 

 blood cause an extra secretion of the urine. In either case their effect is 

 to diminish the watery part of the blood, and thus promote the absorption 

 of fluid effused into any of the cavities, or into the cellular membrane in the 

 various forms of dropsy. 



75. Stimulating Diuretic Ball — 



Powdered Resin 3 drachms. 



Nitre 3 drachms. 



Castile Soap 3 drachms. 



Oil of Juniper 1 drachm. Mix. 



76. A More Cooling Diuretic Ball — 



Powdered Nitre 4 to 1 ounce. 



Camphor 1 drachm. 



Juniper Berries 1 drachm. 



Soap 3 drachms. 



Mix, adding linseed meal enough to form a ball. 



77. Diuretic Powder for a Mash— 



Nitre i to | ounce. 



Kesin 4 to | ounce. Mix. 



78. Another More Active Powder — 



Nitre 6 drachms. 



Camphor 1^ drachms. Mix. 



79. 



Gum Styrax i drachm. 



Hard Soap 2 drachms. 



Resin Powder IJ drachms. 



Nitre Powder 1^ drachms. 



Ginger Powder 1 drachm. 



Oil of Juniper 20 drops. 



Linseed meal and treacle sufficient to form a conveniexit sized ball. 



