APPENDIX. 223 



TO GROW HAIR. 



Add as much sulphur to sweet oil as will make it thick as cream ; 

 rub thoroughly into the tail or mane twice a week. This will grow 

 hair on a tail rapidly. One of my horses rubbed the hair off his tail 

 so as to spoil it. The skin was smooth and glossy, but no hair would 

 grow there. Some one told me to apply the above ; in a short time a 

 thick heavy growth of hair started and grew to full length. Gifford 

 lost all the hair from his tail, falling out (in 1873), in defiance of all 

 that could be done. The above was rubbed well into the dock twice 

 a week, and a heavy growth of hair soon started, making a fine tail. 



FOR SCRATCHES, SADDLE GALLS, ETC., SORE TEATS, CAKED 

 BAGS, ETC., IN COWS. 



Two oz. Goulard's extract ; 2 oz. sulphate zinc ; 8 oz. lard. 



Dr. D. Van Camp, a resident of Theresa, Jefferson Co., N. Y., in 

 1861, with whom the writer became acquainted at that time, made a 

 sort of specialty of this medicine, to dairymen, claimed that it would 

 cure sore teats, caked bags, etc. Dairymen regarded it through that 

 section with special favor, as the medicine sold readily for such use, 

 and the receipt was sold to quite a number of farmers, after the medi- 

 cine was used by them, for $10 to each. The Doctor gave the receipt 

 to the writer on condition of not giving it to any one in that section. 



SURE CURE FOR NEURALGIA (sELECTEd). 



The Norwalk Gazette says : " A friend of ours who suffered horri- 

 ble pains from neuralgia, hearing of a noted physician in Germany 

 who invariably cured that disease, crossed the ocean and visited Ger- 

 many for treatment. He was permanently cured after a short sojourn, 

 and the doctor freely gave him the simple remedy used, which was 

 nothing but a poultice and tea made from our common field thistle. 

 The leaves are macerated and used on the parts afflicted as a poul- 

 tice, while a small quantity of the leaves are boiled down to the pro- 

 portion of a quart to a pint, and a small wine-glass of the decoction 

 drank before each meal. Our friend says he has never known it to 

 fail of giving relief, while in almost every case it has effected a cure." 



TO STOP HAIR FALLING OUT. 



Fill a bottle with lobelia (roots and stems). Fill the bottle now with 

 whisky; scent with anything desirable; wet the hair, rubl)ing well 

 into the scalp, once a day for a week or two. This is as good as it 

 is simple. The writer's hair was coming out badly ; this was used 

 with perfect success. 



