MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 235 



STICKING PLASTER THE VERY BEST. BY AN OLD 



PHYSICIAN. 



Burgundy pitch, I oz. ; dragon's blood, I oz. ; oxcoro, I oz. ; Venice 

 turpentine, I oz. Put in a cup ; melt together. Spread, while warm, 

 on leather or cloth. 



OLD MR. GOULD'S PREPARATION FOR PUTTING ON THE 

 CLAMPS FOR CASTRATING HORSES. 



Mr. Gould is a resident near Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y. He is 

 known in that and surrounding counties for his success in castrating 

 horses, claiming to have never lost a case, and but little swelling after 

 the operation. 



The writer took particular pains to see the old man operate, and 

 learn his secret. 



The horse was laid down and tied in the usual manner. He 

 washed the parts thoroughly with warm water, and then greased with 

 lard. The clamps were of the usual kind. It is the preparation he 

 put on the clamps that made his success, he said. 



He put on the clamp, first rye flour paste ; on this sifts on equal 

 portions of red precipitate and corrosive sublimate, mixed together in 

 powder. In 24 hours the clamps were taken off. This method of 

 treatment has been pursued for many years by a friend of the author, 

 and he claims, with unfailing success, by never having lost a case, and 

 is followed by no appreciable swelling. 



WIND-BROKEN, WHEEZING, OR WHISTLING. 



On page 165 is given a remedy for the cure of whistling, and author- 

 ity. This proof, when set up, I was unable to read, but arranged, as I 

 supposed, for its being made according to copy. The printers, how- 

 ever made a bad blunder. Instead of " sponga fosta," it should 

 read " Spongia, and Fowler's " solution, 20 drops each, or 20 drops of 

 one in the morning, and the same of the other on the tongue at night, 

 and so repeating until a cure was effected, requiring from four to six 

 weeks. Mr. Conklin referred to, of 25 Jackson street, of that city, 

 informed the writer recently, after being carefully questioned about it, 

 after an experience of nearly five years, that his success has been en- 

 tirely satisfactory. Instead of dividing and giving alternately night 

 and morning, as before stated, he unites the medicines, and gives of 

 both, so united, 20 drops, night and morning. He said further, that 

 rilling a sponge with spongia and pushing it up the nostrils of the 

 horse until thoroughly absorbed into the system, would give marked 

 immediate relief to a heavy or wheezy horse ; that he depended upon 

 it for relief to show up a horse well. 



The above medicines are not on sale at the drug stores. Go to a 

 Homoeopathic Repository to get them or you will be annoyed and 

 disappointed. 



