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it tight for eight and forty hours, when it will be fit for 

 use. Dose, a tablespoonfull three times a day before eat- 

 ing, or one gill will answer for a dose for the horse. 

 This has proved beneficial after every other remedy was 

 unavailing. 



No. 34. — For a Cough. 



Take a small handfuU of hoarhound and of slippery 

 elm bark (the brittle kind), and two tablespoonsfuU of 

 sage, and one of saffron, simmer together, strain oflf; add 

 half a pint of molasses, and simmer again two hours, 

 with a moderate heat, and while it is hot, add half a pint 

 of the best Hollands. Dose, three times a day, com- 

 mencing with a tablespoonfull, and increase as you like; 

 this is a safe and reliable remedy for a cough, for man 

 or horse. * 



No. 35. — Cure for the Asthma. 



Difficult cases of this complaint may be cured, by taking 

 two ounces each of elecampane root, sweet flag root, 

 spikenard root, and the same of common chalk; beat them 

 in a mortar until very fine, then adding one pound of 

 honey, and beat them all together; take a teaspoonfull 

 three or four times a day. A tablespoonfull may be given 

 to a horse to advantage three times a day, by working 

 into a ball. 



No. 36. — For the same, or Heaves. 



Take a seed bole of the skunk cabbage, that grows 

 close to the ground, at the bottom of #the leaves; if this 

 can not be obtained, use the wild turnip (wake robin) 

 with a little lobelia seed; stew this in hen's fat (after 



