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sovereign fa^nily medicine, in jaundice. It may be used 

 by patients in a very weak, low state, and with a cough, 

 without injury, when powerful astringents would not be 

 safe. It restores to action the digestive powers, corrects 

 the derangement in the biliary organs, relieves when 

 food injures, or prevents the injury, restores the appe- 

 tite, and regulates and does not bind the bowels, like 

 most astringents. We have no doubt that it is valuable 

 for animals, in the same complaint. Prepare it thus : 



Take the bark of white ash ; if from old trees, take off 

 the ross to the live part. If green, partially dry a part 

 of it; sweep the oven, and kindle the bark in it, using 

 the dr}' part ; then lay on the green ; burn in a slow 

 draught ; throw in the ends and raise up the bottom, and 

 it will all burn to pure white ashes. Put two heaping 

 table spoonfuls into a bottle of very good, strong old cider, 

 and shake it a few times. A common ^^-ine-glass full is 

 a dose for the human patient, to be taken three times a 

 day, before eating. Give an animal a pint for a dose, 

 sprinkled on fodder, or mixeil with oats, bran, or meal, 

 or turn it down the throat. A larger dose may be neces- 

 sary. A quart would not injure. 



We regard this as one of the safest medicines in all 

 conditions of the system, and one of the most efficacious. 

 We have known it to cure in almost hopeless cases, w'hen, 

 from the severity of the disorder, it was thought that 

 consumption was connected with it. White ash is the 

 variety used so extensively as timber for carriages, han- 

 dles for hoes, shovels, forks, rakes, and many other pur- 

 poses. 



GLANDERS. 



This IS one of the most formidable and disagreeable 

 of diseases. It commences in an irritation in the mem- 

 brane of the nose ; as it advances, tubercles form, matter 

 is discharged, the bones of the nose and head become 

 diseased and carious, and the poison is absorbed into 

 the circulation, and affects the whole system. 



This disease may be produced, as it often is, by bad 

 itable management, sii-.h as hot, filthy and ill-veiitilate(J 



