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water two or three times, so that it may be entirely clear 

 and free of the egg ointment, and then it will keep perfectly 

 good. The curd is of no future use. This eye-wash is in- 

 valuable, '^o physician or druggist has ever discovered a 

 medicine of the kind equal to it, and it is claimed by the 

 author of this work as his exclusive invention. When ap- 

 plied to the human eye it should be diluted. The curd may 

 be used by the human subject with great efficacy. 



JIMSON-SEBD. 

 XI. 



The Datura Stramonium, familiarly known as the jimson- 

 weed, or thorn-apple, is a well-known poisonous plant, grow- 

 ing in rubbish in waste places. Its seed is used as a horse 

 medicine; for, though poisonous to man, it is often beneficial 

 to beasts. The only danger in giving it to the horse is, that 

 it may injuriously affect his eyes; and yet horses have al- 

 most lived upon it for weeks and months, and no harm has 

 followed. Cattle, sheep, and goats feed upon it with impun- 

 ity. For the horse it is a most powerful alterative. It is 

 cathartic, diaphoretic, and diuretic. It acts upon the stom- 

 ach and bowels, producing a healthy condition of those or- 

 gans. It enters the blood rapidly, finds its way through the 

 capillaries to the surface, producing energetic and healthy cu- 

 taneous evacuations. Nothing that can be given the horse 

 will so quickly regulate and allay urinary obstructions and 

 inflammation. It is the great horse medicine. In cases of 

 big head, hide-bound, stiff complaint, mange, farcy, glanders, 

 distemper, and chronic founder it is unsurpassed. In all cases 

 of impure and disordered and impaired digestion it is the med- 

 icine of all medicines. Nothing that we have ever used acts 

 so promptly and beneficially. The big head can not be suc- 

 cessfully cured without it; neither can bad cases of hide- 

 bound and stiff complaint. Perhaps there is nothing that 

 will relieve rheumatism as speedily as this seed. It should 

 be gathered during the months of October and November 

 and laid up for use. 



