52 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 



No. 2, — x\lcoliol, 16 oimces; spirits turpentine, 10 ounces; muriate of 

 ammonia. 1 ounce. Mix. 



No. 3. — Alcohol, water, spirits turpentine and soft soap, of each 1 pint; 

 salt, 6 ounces. Mix. 



Poll Evil and Fistula. 

 ]^^o. 1. — Copperas, 1 drachm; blue vitriol, 2 drachms; common salt, 2 

 drachms ; white vitriol, 1 drachm. Mix, and powder tine. Fill a goose- 

 quill with the powder, and push it to the bottom of the pipe, having a stick 

 in the top of the quill, so that you can push the powder out of the quill, 

 leaving it at the bottom of the pipe ; repeat again in about four days, and in 

 two or three days from that time you can take hold of the pipe and remove 

 it without trouble. 



No. 2. — Tincture of opium, 1 drachm ; potash, 2 drachms ; water, 1 

 ounce. Mix. and, when dissolved, inject into the pipes with a small s}Tinge, 

 having cleansed the sore with soap-suds ; repeat every two days until the 

 pipes are completely destroyed. 



No. 3. — Take a small piece of lunar caustic ; place in the pipe, after 

 being cleansed with soap-suds; then fill the hole with sweet oil. 



Bots. 

 Take new milk, 2 quarts; syrup, 1 quart. Mix, and give the whole, and, 

 in fifteen or twenty minutes after, give two quarts of warm, strong sage 

 tea; half an hour after the tea, give one quart of raw linseed oil, or, if the 

 oil can not be had, give lard instead. 



Ointment for Horses. 

 Beeswax. 2 ounces; rosin, 3 ounces; lard, 4 ounces; carbolic acid, 1 

 drachm ; honey, i ounce ; melt all together and bring slowly to a boil ; then 

 remove from the fire, and add, slowly, 1 gill of spirits of turpentine, stirring 

 all the time until cool. Used, with good success, for galls, cracked heels, 

 flesh wounds or bruises. 



Condition Powders. 

 No. 1. — Gentian, fenugreek, sulphur, saltpetre, cream of tartar, of each 

 2 ounces; resin, black antimony, of each 1 ounce; ginger, liquorice, 3 

 oimces each ; cayenne, 1 ounce ; pulverized and mixed thoroughly. Dose, 1 

 tablespoonful, once or twice a day, mixed with the food. Used, with good 

 success, for coughs, colds, distemper, hide-bound, and nearly all diseases 

 for which condition powders are given. 



No. 2. — Fenugreek, 4 ounces; ginger, 6 ounces; anise, pulverized, 4 

 ounces; gentian, 2 ounces; black antimony. 2 ounces; hard wood ashes, 4 

 ounces. Mix all together. Excellent to give a horse an appetite. 



No. 3. — Liquorice, 4 ounces; fenugreek, 4 ounces; elecampane, 4 ounces; 

 blood root. 1 ounce; tartar emetic, i ounce; ginger and cayenne, each 



