238 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 



FOR DEEP WOUNDS. 



Prevents inflammation or tendency to slo ighing or mortification. 



One Ib. saltpetre, I gallon water, i quart best whisky. Inject into 

 the wound with a syringe three times a day until a cure is effected. 



A gun-shot wound, a foot deep, in the thigh of a horse (the ball 

 could not be found, remaining in the leg) was perfectly cured in two 

 weeks by this treatment. 



In treating deep and dangerous wounds, especially if the animal is 

 plethoric or fat, take away the grain, give a dose of physic, feed 

 bran, carrots, etc. If grass is available substitute it for hay. You can 

 also omit physic if grass is given freely. The acid on the grass neu- 

 tralizes physic and makes it unnecessary.' 



FOR REMOVING CALLOUSES OR THICKENING, CURBS OR 

 BUNCHES OF ANY KIND. 



Oil origanum, oil spike, oil amber, spirits turpentine and camphor, I 

 ounce each. Rub on thoroughly two or three times a week. 



When in Ohio, the writer bought a fine work horse very cheap, on 

 account of having a very bad curb on one of his legs, making a very 

 disagreeable blemish. He was purchased late in June and kept con- 

 stantly to the hardest pulling as a wheel horse. A little of the above 

 medicine was rubbed on about once a week, sometimes oftener, and 

 again would frequently neglect doing so for more than that time. By 

 fall the enlargement was all gone, and the leg was as smooth and well 

 as the one opposite. 



SLOW BUT SURE CURE FOR SPAVINS. 



Spirits of turpentine and hog's lard, simmer in the su three or 

 four days. Apply three or four times a week until well. By this 

 treatment the horse may be kept to his work. 



TO CURE FITS. 



Put as much valerian root, and the castor or wart from a horse's 

 leg, which is to be cleaned and cut into small pieces, as will be di- 

 gested in a pint of whisky. Dose three teaspoonfuls each day, and 

 repeated until a cure is effected. A son of Mr. Hoyer's, of Shelby, 

 Niagara county, N. Y., twelve years old, was subject to fits terribly, 

 being in a fit sometimes, Mr. Hoyer stated, for two hours. Dr. Fail- 

 ing, of Royalton, next town, obtained the above remedy in Canada, 

 which cured the boy in six months. Mr. Henderson, hotel keeper of 

 Otisco, N. Y., claimed to have been cured by this prescription. 



