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CLYSTERS. 



These are useful and too often neglected means 

 of hastening the bowels to their speedy action, 

 where diseases require it. The old ox bladder 

 filled and tied on the wooden or elder pipe, an- 

 swers every purpose for injecting the fluid into 

 the intestines. For a moderate clyster take 2 

 ounces of soft or yellow soap, mix with 1 gallon 

 of warm water; for a more active clyster take J 

 pound epsom salts, dissolve in the same quan- 

 tity of water. 



LINSEED. 



An infusion of linseed is often used instead 

 of water for the drink of a horse with a sore 

 throat, catarrh, disease of the urinary organs, 

 or of the bowels. Thin gruel is preferable, 

 being as soothing and more nutritious. Linseed 

 meal makes an excellent poultice for almost any 

 purpose. 



