310 avery's own farrier. 



No. 87. — Restoration to Health. 



When the horse has sunken, sallow-looking, gummed 

 eyes, you may give him a spoonful! of pulverized cop- 

 peras, to advantage, but it is not best to repeat the dose 

 under a week, if at all, as the poison it contains is too 

 weakening if too often repeated. 



No. 88.— The Non Plus. 



The common puff ball is sometimes useful in staunch- 

 ing blood, from a fresh wound, by breaking it up and 

 binding it on the wound. It also has about the same 

 effect on the horse that chloroform does on the human, 

 by drying it, and then letting him inhale the smoke 

 thereof, while it is burning on hot coals; this is used 

 sometimes (in the absence of other articles) for medi- 

 cating the horse. 



No. 89. — For a General Medicine. , 



As I stated in the commencement of the second part 

 of this work, that there could not be anything very 

 serious about the horse, that did not aflfect any of the 

 principal outlets of the body, viz: the skin, urine or 

 excrement, because, if any of the internal organs of his 

 complicated structure be deranged, it will soon show 

 itself in some one or all of these, which calls for some 

 artificial stimulant to set them right again; and not 

 unfrequently, it requires a general medicine, that will act 

 in harmony on the whole; and then it is often the case, 

 aside from this, that there is a want of vital energy of 

 the system, when the pulse will be below the common 



