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rest, it will be well to bathe or rather gently rub the parts with 

 some kind of opodeldoc. Sweet oil, goose-grease, laudanum, 

 spirits of camphor, hartshorn, brandy, alcohol, rum, whiskey, 

 &c. &c. are the bases of all the mixtures known under the term 

 opodeldoc. Any one or two of these substances, or all of them, 

 may be employed. For the purpose of friction, the mixture 

 should be strong enough to produce a smarting sensation, and 

 impart a certain degree of redness to the skin, when rubbed 

 in. Brandy and salt is a good application for this purpose, and 

 can be obtained with convenience at almost any place. 



This done, the parts may be bathed or kept wet with a solution 

 of sugar-of-lead, made with equal parts of water and vinegar. If 

 the limb, in spite of all these precautions, should be painful and 

 continue to swell, it will ease it very much to apply a large 

 poultice of flaxseed, corn meal, onions, &c. &,c. If it gets worse, 

 send for a Doctor, if within a hundred miles, and he will order 

 the joint leeched, and prescribe a dose of salts and magnesia. 



Perfect rest to the limb is of the greatest importance, and 

 without it no treatment will produce a cure. If the ankle is the 

 affected joint, the foot should be kept up on a pillow, and never 

 put to the ground till free of pain. A blow or bruise may 

 be treated pretty much in the same way. 



The following lotion for sprains, bruises, &c., we give as 

 recommended by an old English Sportsman, as well as soldier, 

 General Hanger: The reason why we give this old-fashioned 

 recipe in preference to any other of more moderate date, is that 

 we adopted it several years ago as a kind of family cure-all^ for 

 man and beast, and found it to answer a most excellent pur- 

 pose. 



X R. — Spirits of wine oviij ; 



Gum camphor oj ; 



Spirit of turpentine .oj ; 



Spirit of sal. ammoniac sj ; 



Oil of origanum cSS ; 



Laudanum oj. \/ 



Dissolve the camphor in the spirits of wine first, then add the 

 other ingredients. To be rubbed in with the hand for full a 

 quarter of an hour, several times each day. This mixture will 

 be found very efficacious in the case of horses, dogs, cattle, men, 



