110 DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 



of nitre, three ounces whole ginger, and three ounces 

 of cloves. In eight days it will be ready for use. The 

 dose is not named. This quantity would be enough foi 

 five or SIX strong doses, or eight or ten moderate doses. 



Another. An ounce of laudanum, given in a little 

 water, has invariably succeeded with some who have 

 tried it many times. Laudanum is a powerful anti-irri- 

 tant, and a diffusive stimulant. There is no danger in 

 giving this medicine at the commencement of the disease ; 

 but if a fever and inflammation have set in, it would be 

 improper. This condition of the system would require 

 bleeding, purging, and clystering, and frequently the 

 application of cold water to the surface, immediately 

 followed by rubbing, wisping dry, and warm covering. 



Another. As soon as the animal is attacked, make 

 a strong soot tea, and add half a pint of whiskey, new 

 rum, or other spirit, and pour it down. 



Another. Take a handful of the white part of hen- 

 dung, and simmer it a few minutes in a quart of humnn 

 urine 5 strain, and drench the horse with it, and if net 

 effectual, repeat the dose in half an hour. 



Another. Give a quart of common salt and water, 

 as strong as it can be made. 



Another. Give half a pint or a pint of linseed oil. 



Another. Half a pint of hot drops is excellent. 



Another. Put a pint of hot wood-ashes and embers 

 into two quarts of cold water, and stir. Cut off an inch 

 and a half of hand tobacco, and shred it into the mix- 

 ture. Stir all up; let it set fifteen minutes and settle; 

 then pour off a common junk bottle full, and drench 

 your horse. It is called a speedy cure. A \mter in the 

 Southern Planter says that he has seen this given in 

 one hundred cases, without a single failure, and that it 

 would not injure a well horse. 



Remarks. Sometimes there is an inlrosusception, or 

 falling of one part of the bowels into another ; or a 

 doubling of the intestines, so as to completely stop the 

 passage. In such cases, it may be impossible to afford any 

 relief; and doses of physic and other medicine vrhich pro 

 duce fermentation, may only aggravate the difficulties 

 Back-rake, and give a powerful exciting injection, which 



