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A spavined horse will travel better if the inside heel-cork u ham- 

 mered down, or the inside of the shoe is perceptibly thinner, so as to 

 relieve pressure upon the inside of the leg. If ringboned before, 

 hammer down the toe-cork, and turn the toe up like a well worn 

 down shoe, rounding up like a sled crook with medium crooks be- 

 hind. The object is to enable the foot to roll or turn on the ground 

 easily, and thus bring less strain upon the joint which is sore and 

 sensitive. 



TO CURE CUTS OR BRUISES OF THE CHEEKS. 



Use inside I dram tannin to ^ oz. borax, three or four parts 

 water ; swab once a day inside of wound. For outside dressing, use 

 tincture myrrh and aloes (described on foot page 184). All wounds 

 or injuries before being dressed should be washed or sponged clean 

 with castile soap and tepid water, then dress with medicine. Wounds 

 or sores should not be dressed oftener than once in 24 hours. 



MAGIC LINIMENT. 



Two oz. oil of spike, 2 oz. origanum, 2 oz. hemlock, 2 oz. worm- 

 wood, 4 oz. sweet oil, 2 oz. spirits ammonia, 2 oz. gum camphor, 2 oz. 

 spirits turpentine, and I quart proof spirits go per cent. Mix well 

 together, and bottle tight. For sprains, bruises, lameness, etc., in man, 

 this liniment, without turpentine, is unrivaled. 



NOTE. This prescription was obtained by the writer twelve years ago, in On 

 ondaga Co., N. Y. Much was claimed for it; that it would cure lame back, 

 bruises, sprains, etc., and with the turpentine worked well upon horse flesh. My 

 attention has been particularly called to it during the past two years by parties 

 who used it. In Niagara Co., N. Y., a gentleman, in looking over his book after 

 the school, pointed to it, saying : "There is a receipt I would not take $50 for." He 

 said a very fine horse in that neighborhood a few years ago got strained in the 

 back so badly that he could not get up in consequence. A negro from Syracuse, 

 f took the horse in charge, made and applied a liniment to the back, bathing it in 

 thoroughly twice daily. There was rapid improvement ; the animal being soon 



able to get up, and got entirely wen. tte ottered tne negro $10 lor tne receipt, 

 without avail, that he made the nigger drunk and stole the receipt from him, 

 kk and," said he, " that's it exactly." He took down a bottle from a shelf in the 

 sitting-room (in Charlotte, Niagara Co., N. Y.), saying: " Here is some of it ; 

 they could not keep house without it here. For toothache, neuralgic pains, 

 sprains, etc., the landlady said it was indispensable ; that they kept it always in 

 the house." This was corroborated by others. 



At Clifton Springs, Ontario Co., N. V.. during my last tour through that sec- 

 tion in 1874, a gentleman pointed out the same prescription taken from my old 

 book, and said he would not take $100 for it ; that he had cured 40 cases of neu- 

 ralgia with it ; that he put up the medicine as a specialty for that purpose, _at 

 $1.00 a bottle ; first making it up for his wife, who was troubled with neuralgia, 

 curing her. It was used by others with the same result. The demand becoming 

 so great that he put it up as a specialty and had thus secured a large local sale cf it. 



