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Tincture of Lobelia. 



Lobelia Seeds, 4 ounces 



Water and Alcohol, of each,. 1 pint. 



, Macerate for fourteen days, and then pour off the clear 

 liquor. Dose, as an anti-spasmodic, two drachms, diluted with 

 warm water. So soon as the animal begins to "5/m'cr" at the 

 mouth this medicine must be discontinued. 



Liquor Acetate of Ammonia. 



Take of acetic acid, one part ; water, seven parts ; carbonate 

 of ammonia sufficient to saturate the acid. 



This preparation is made as follows : — Pour the acid and 

 water into a large wedgewood mortar, then add small pieces of 

 carbonate of ammonia, and pulverize the same in the fluid by- 

 means of the pestle ; an effervescence immediately commences. 

 Keep on adding ammonia, and pulverize and agitate the same 

 until effervescence ceases ; then pour off the clear liquor into a 

 stoppered bottle, and it is then fit for use. Dose, as a febrifuge 

 and decarbonizer of the blood, four ounces, diluted with a pint 

 of water. 



Tincture of Bloodroot. • 



Powdered Bloodroot, 4 ounces. 



Water and Alcohol, of each, 1 pint. 



Macerate for fourteen days, and pour off the clear liquor. 



This is an excellent remedy as a dressing for canker and foot- 

 rot. When diluted with water, in the proportion of two ounces 

 of the tincture to sixteen ounces of water, it is the very best 

 remedy that can be applied for opacity or whiteness of the 

 cornea of the eye. In curable cases it is a remedy which was 

 never known to fail. 



Tincture of Goldenseal. 



Powdered Goldenseal, 6 ounces. 



Water and Alcohol, of each, 1 pint. 



Steep for fourteen days, and pour off the clear liquor. Dose, 

 one ounce, to be diluted with water. This is a good tonic and 

 alterative. (See page 426, " Modern Horse Doctor." 



