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<5oppera8, 1 do. burnt alum, 1 of gunpowder, in one pint of rain water. 

 Oil the sore well after washing. 



Fistula.— Take 1 pint of alcohol, half pint turpentine, 1 oz. Indigo. 

 Apply once a day. 



To Drive Off Poll Evil before it Breaks.— Take 4 oz. oil of spike. 

 1 of British oil, one-eighth of whjite vitriol, 1 of extract of muUen hearts. 

 Apply twice a day. Shake well before you apply. Give the cleansing pow- 

 der to cleanse the blood. 



Tmtusn OR Spavin.— Take 2 oz. oil of St. John, 1 oz, of oil of vitriol, 1 

 oz, oil turpentine, 3 oz. of whiskey. For spavin or ring-bone add 2 oz. of 

 mercurial ointment. This is a valuable receipt 



Condition Powders.— Take 2 lbs, of resin, 1 Jb. ginger, l*lb. cassar, ^ 

 lb. saltpetre. Pulverize fine and mix together. Give 1 table-spoonful 

 every other day. 



Water Farcy.— This is a swelling along under the chest, and forward 

 to the breast. Bleed, rowel in the breast and all along the swelling, six 

 Inches apart. Apply the general liniment to the swelling. Move the 

 rowels every day. Let them stay in until the swelling goes down. Give 

 soft food— mashes— with the cleansing powder in it. This is dropsy. 



Too Free Discharge op Urine.— Give one half oz. of the tr. of canthar- 

 Ides every mornmg for ten or twelve days, and if not entirely well, repeat 

 itagain, and bleed one gallon from the neck— give clean food. The cause 

 Is rotten or musty grain, or too free use of turpentine. Keep him open 

 with mashes and green food. 



Disease op the Liver, or Yellow Water,— Give the following ball ev- 

 ery morning until it operates upon the bowels. Take 7 drachms of aloes, 

 and 1 drachm of calomel, 4 drachms of ginger, and molasses enough to 

 make It into a ba'l, wrap it in paper and give it; give scalded bran and 

 oats, grass If it can be got; when his bowels have moved, stop the physic, 

 and give 1 oz. spirits of camphor in a half pint of water every morning 

 for twelve days ; rowel in the breast, and give a few doses of cleansing 

 powder. Turn him out. 



Fresh Wounds.— First, stop the wound by tying the arteries, or by ap- 

 plying the following wash : 4 gr. of nitre of silver, 1 oz. of soft water. Wet 

 the wound with this and then draw the edges together by stitches one 

 inch apart, then wash clean, and if any swelling in twenty-four hours, 

 bleed, and apply the blue ointment, or any of the liniments spoken of. 

 Keep the bowela open. 



