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looks like blood. One evident symptom of this disease 

 will appear on pulling out some of the hair from the 

 mane or tail, which will be dry and curled on the end 

 and yellowish, instead of white as in health. The whole 

 circulating fluid of the system appears to be affected by 

 this disease, which proceeds from a disordered liver. To 

 effect a cure the bile needs to be regulated, which helps 

 to restore the blood to its former healthy condition. 



Cure. — Take two drachms each of gum camphor and 

 asafoetida, dissolve and give as a drench every morning 

 in a pint of old cider. Make a tea by steeping the bark 

 of the common wild black cherry tree, scalding a gallon 

 of wheat bran with it, and give the horse everyday, 

 after adding a spoonfull of the dried and pulverized root 

 of burdock. Be sure not to bleed. Let his exercise be 

 regular but not hard; give him a good rubbing and 

 stabling, and his health will soon improve. 



Recipe for the Cure of Yellow Water. — Take two hen's 

 eggs and two spoonsfuU of soot, or powdered charcoal; 

 beat them together, and give fhe horse every day until 

 he is better; in bran, if he will eat it prepared in this 

 way; if not, prepare some more and give in a drench of 

 cherry or mint tea. 



DEAFNESS. 



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I would as soon drive a blind horse as a deaf one, and 

 it much oftener happens to be the case. People do not 

 generally know or think what the difficulty is with their 

 horse. You may know when the horse is troubled wiih 

 deafness, by his not paying any regard to the word of 

 his master, either in starting or stopping, until he sees 



