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reducing lam pas hy bleeding, Solomon's Bahn of Gitead is 

 a tincture compounded of cardamon seeds, brandy, and a 

 trace of cantharides. A Tincture of Gentian and another 

 of Ginger may be kept handy for the purposes of dilution, 

 but the roots themselves and the infusion, as we have said 

 before, are the cheaper and more potent remedies. 

 Tincture of Muriate of Iron is a styptic, and an active 

 preparation. In warm water it is advisable in strangury, 

 given every quarter of an hour in doses of twenty drops. 



Tonics (see Stirifiulants and Cordials). — They are valuable 

 medicines when judiciously employed ; but, like cordials, 

 they have been fatally abused. Many a horse recovering 

 from severe disease has been destroyed by their too early 

 or too free use. The veterinary surgeon occasionally 

 administers them injuriously, in his anxiety to gratify the 

 impatience of his employer. The mild vegetable tonics, 

 camomile, gentian, and ginger, and perhaps the carbonate 

 of iron, may sometimes be given with benefit, and may 

 hasten the perfect recovery of the patient ; but there are 

 few principles more truly founded on reason and experience 

 of the horse than that, disease once removed, the powers of 

 nature are sufficient to re-establish health. Against the 

 more powerful mineral tonics, except for the particular 

 purposes that have been pointed out under the proper 

 heads, the horse proprietor and the veterinarian should be 

 on his guard. 



(A) TONIC BALL. 



Powdered bark . . . . .1 ounce. 



Ginger ...... 2 drachms. 



Carbonate of soda .... J drachm. 



Form into a ball with linseed meal and water. 



(B) Another. 

 Sulphate of iron .... J ounce. 

 Extract of camomile . . .1 ounce. 



Mix and form into a ball. 



(C) Another, more powerful. 

 Arsenic . . . . . .10 grains. 



Ginofer ...... 1 drachm. 



Powdered aniseed . . . . 1 ounce. 



Compound powder of tragacanth . 2 drachms. 

 Spring enough to form a ball. 



