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Ring-Bone and Spavin Cure. Venice turpentine and Spanish flies, of each 

 two ounces; euphorbium and aqua ammonia, of each one ounce; red precipitate, 

 one-half ounce; corrosive sublimate, one-quarter ounce; lard, one and one-half 

 pounds. Pulverize all, and put into the lard. Simmer slowly over coals, not scorch- 

 ing or burning, and pour off free of sediment. For ring-bones, cut off the hair and 

 rub the ointment well into the lumps, once in forty-eight hours. For spavins, once 

 in twenty-four hours for three mornings. Wash well with suds previous to each 

 application, rubbing over the place with a smooth stick, to squeeze out a yellow 

 matter. This has removed very large ring-bones. 



Cure for Mange. Oil of tar, one ounce; lac sulphur, one and one-half ounces; 

 whale oil, two ounces. Mix. Rub a little on the skin wherever the disease appears, 

 and continue, daily, for a week, and then wash off with castile soap and warm water. 



To grow Hair. Mix sweet oil, one pint; sulphur, three ounces. Shake well, 

 and rub well into the dock twice a week. 



For Worms. Calomel, one drachm; tartar emetic, one-half drachm; linseed 

 meal, one ounce; fenugreek, one ounce. Mix and give in feed at night, and repeat 

 the dose for two or three times, and follow with one and one-half pints of raw linseed 

 oil, about six hours after the last powder has been given. 



Physic Balls for Horses. Barbadoes aloes, from four to five or six drachms 

 (according to the size and strength of the horse); tartrate of potassa, one drachm; 

 ginger and castile soap, each two drachms; oil of anise or peppermint, twenty drops. 

 Pulverize and make all into one ball, with thick gum solution. Feed by giving 

 scalded bran, instead of oats, for two days before giving the physic, and during its 

 operation. * 



Sweeney Liniment. Take alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each eight 

 ounces; camphor gum, pulverized cantharides, and capsicum, of each one ounce; 

 oil of spike, three ounces. Mix all; or perhaps the best plan is to tincture the 

 capsicum first, and use the tincture instead of the powder, by which means you are 

 free of sediment. Bathe this liniment in with a hot iron. The first case has yet to 

 be found where it has not cured this disease, when faith fully 'folio wed. 



Sprint and Spavin Liniment. Take a large-mouthed bottle and put into it 

 oil of origanum, six ounces; gum camphor, two ounces; mercurial ointment, two 

 ounces; iodine ointment, one ounce. Melt by putting the bottle into a kettle of hot 

 water. Apply i': to bone spavins or splints twice daily, for four or five days. The 

 lameness will trouble you no more. 



Bog-Spavin and Wind-Gall Ointment ; also Good for Curbs, Splints, Ring- 

 Bone, and Spavin. Take pulverized cantharides^ one ounce; mercurial ointment, 

 two ounces; tincture of iodine, one and one-half ounces; spirits of turpentine, two 

 ounces; cor-'-sr/e sublimate, one and one-half drachms; lard, one pound. Mix well, 

 and when des- red to apply, first cut off the hair, wash well and anoint, rubbing it in 

 well with the hand, or glove if preferred. Two days after, grease the part with lard, 

 and in two days more wash off and apply the ointment again. Repeat the process 

 every week, as long as necessary. 



Unhealthy Ulcers. Nitric acid, one ounce; blue vitriol, three ounces; soft 

 water, fifteen ounces. 



Water Farcy. No. i. Saltpetre, two ounces; copperas, tv-o ounces; ginger, 

 one ounce; fenugreek, two ounces; anise, one-half ounce; gentian, one ounce. 

 Mix, and divide into eight powders; give two or three each day. 



No. 2. Gentian, one ounce; ginger, one-half ounce; anise, one ounce; ele- 



