120 ON THE (ECONOMY OF THE STABLE. 



mallows, bay leaves, tanfy, and rofemary, of 

 each fix handfuls in a gallon of water flowly, 

 to three quarts, mix the three quarts with 

 water in a flrong tub, in which bath the 

 horfe's two legs may be placed as warm as is 

 convenient, and there kept as long as the 

 heat continues. Warm it afrefh for the hind- 

 legs. 



Pains in the shanks, and shins, of 

 Racers. Poppies bruifed four ounces; la- 

 vender, elder-flowers, and camomile, each three 

 or four handfuls ; boil in fix pints of water, 

 ftrain off three pints, and add three ounces of 

 camphorated fpirits : ufe the mixture warm, 

 twice a day, with fponge or flannel, to the legs 

 and joints, when the horfe comes in from ex- 

 ercife, the lafl: thing after drefling. 



Saturnine strengthening embroca- 

 tion. Befl diftilled vinegar, one pint ; aqua 

 vegeto made with one pint of water, and three 

 tea-fpoons of Goulard's Extraft of Saturn, two 

 ounces of oil of turpentine : mix. A quantity 

 of this fhould be kept clofe corked for ftable 

 ufe, as it improves by keeping : its ftrength 

 may be varied by the increafe or diminution of 

 the quantity of Goulard's extraft ; but I have 

 ever found the prefent form fufficiently flrong, 

 in this intention. 



Running thrush : when this has become 

 inveterate, fetid, and difcharges much, deterge 



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