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four or five doses, two days apart. This will serve to 

 thin and purify his blood. If the heels are hot and much 

 inflamed, poultice them with dry ginger (or wet it with 

 vinegar). This will take out the inflammation. Then 

 take half a pint of Boston rum, add to this an ounce of 

 blue vitriol and two ounces of loaf sugar (which will 

 bear filling up with the rum), as you use it, wash the 

 heels with this, two or three times a day, until cured; 

 shake well before using. In ordinary cases, this wash 

 is all that is necessary to effect a cure. The green salve 

 is also an excellent thing ibr cracked heels, and many 

 other sores. It may be made by taking half a pound of 

 hog's lard, and adding an ounce of pulverized blue vi- 

 triol: mix, and it is fit for use. 



Swelling and hiflammation. — This is caused by taking 

 cold after castration, other wounds, &c. Bind on a 

 large poultice made of clay and vinegar, or a quantity 

 of green burdock leaves, wilted in hot vinegar. This 

 will sweat the parts it is applied to, and take the swel- 

 ling and inflammation aTl out. When a swelling is 

 going to matterate, and you want to bring it to a head 

 or rot it, poultice it wiih the following (if it is not ex- 

 pedient to use the lance): Take warm water, shave 

 into it hard soap, stir until you have a very stiflf lather, 

 thicken with wheat flour and bind it on the swelling. 

 There is still another kind of poultice that is very good 

 in some cases, but rather milder than the above. Take 

 carrots and have them grated fine, a like quantity of 

 charcoal well pulverized, mix them together, and then 

 add yeast enough to make the whole pliable; to be ap- 

 plied warm. All poultices should be kept warm and 



