MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 



THERE are chance receipts here that will be found valuable. At all 

 events, I give such plain, practical explanations, and include the best 

 remedies, obtained by me in various ways during my experience, as I 

 believe best and most reliable. Dr. Somerville informs the writer that 

 he is having the best of success lately in treating colic and inflamma- 

 tion of the bowels with the fever medicine. He gives about a tea- 

 spoonful every thirty minutes until there is relief. 



You will, however, find the regular treatment under those special 

 heads, colic, pneumonia, inflammation of bowels, founder, to be, if 

 available, the best the writer has found, and in fact he gives the best 

 treatment he can. Altogether, this edition will be found much better 

 than any former one. 



TO CURE A FISTULA, POLL EVIL OR ANY INDOLENT 

 ULCER. 



Burn corn cobs to ashes, fill the sore to the bottom with the ashes. It 

 may be necessary to repeat two or three times, until a cure is effected. 



A countryman who claimed he could cure any fistula, poll evil, etc., 

 with one or two applications of a certain remedy, brought forward 

 several neighbors who fully endorsed his assertions. One man said he 

 had a horse that had been doctored for fistula for two years without 

 doing any good, and at large expense. He was advised by this man 

 to treat as above directed, and a cure was effected in a few weeks. 

 Others who had used it endorsed the statement in the strongest terms. 

 In the cases referred to there was no effort at dressing the ulcer. The 

 ashes were stuffed to the bottom, when a granulating process set in 

 and gradually healed up. Being simple and safe it is worthy a trial, 

 and persons using it will confer a favor by reporting result to me at 

 Buffalo, N. Y., from which point all mail matter will be received. 



TO CURE WEAK BACK. 



O. J. Madison, livery keeper and large dealer in horses, of Mas- 

 sillon, Ohio, a few years ago, cured several very bad cases. One horse 

 was so weak that he would fall down and could not get up ; said it 

 would cure any case of weak back, ard that he never knew it to fail. 



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