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ters, stubs, nails, thorns, and is preferable to any 

 oiher ointment whatever. It will keep flies and 

 maggots from sores, and is very good for cas- 

 trated horses : put it on when first castrated, and 

 it will prevent swelling. Understanding Farriers, 

 who have been acquainted with its healing virtues, 

 liave offered ten pounds to know how^ it was 

 made. The copperas water is very good to be 

 applied previous to the green ointment, to 

 drench and wash the sore. 



To 7nakc the valuable Copperas Water^ to wash or 

 syringe, or drench sores on Horses. 



Take clean water 2 quarts, and put it into a 

 clean pot, and put thereto of green copperas half 

 a pound, salt one handful, honey one spoonful, 

 and a branch or two of rosemary ; boil all this 

 tiil one half the water is consumed ; and a little 

 before you take it from the fire, put to it the 

 quantjcy of a duve'^ eg^ of alum ; then take it 

 from the fire, and when it is cold, put the water 

 into a glass, stop it up close, and keep it for your 

 use; and when you are to dress any sore, first 

 wash it clean with this water, and if the wound 

 be deep, inject it with a syringe. This water of 

 itself will cure any reasonable sore, or wound. 



DR. DOW'S RECEIPTS, OF N. H. 



For a Stoppage or Dry Belly Ache in a Horse or Ox. 



The symptoms are a faltering, weakness, twis- 

 ting and laying down. For relief, give one pint 

 of Holland gin, and one half pint of molasses in 

 the first stage of the disease — this has cured im- 

 mediately. Let one person hold up his head by 

 the under jaw, lay your hand edgewise pcross the 

 creature's mouth, back of the fore teeth, and 



