RECEIPT BOOK. 21 



To preserve a Horse against Botts. 



Take of bees' wax, mutton tallow, and sugar 

 each 8 ounces, put it into one quart of warm milk, 

 and heat it until it all melts and mixes; then put 

 the whole into a bottle, and just before the wax, 

 &c., begins to harden, give it to the horse. Two 

 or three hours afterward giv^ him physic. 



Another method 



Give a horse occasionally a half pint of hard 

 •.I'ood ashes mixed in his grain and sprinkled, or 

 given in his drink. This is an excellent remedy. 



Another 



Give your horse salt »iCeiy — as that will, m nme 

 cases out of ten, preserve him from the botts. If 

 he is attacked by them, give him a quart of warm 

 fish brine; and if the case be a bad one, repeat 

 ne dose once an hour. For this purpose, save 

 ijour Jish brine. 



Physic for a Horse. 



A strong decoction of the herb called mother- 

 wort, which is very common. Let it be mixed with 

 Indian meal, or given through a bottle, if the horse 

 refuse the meal when mixed with the decoction 

 This is an excellent remedy against worms. 



To cure Colic in Horses. 



Give your horse linseed oil, administered in tho 

 quantity of half a pint to a pint, according to the 

 violence of the symptoms. 



Another. 

 Pound into pewder three or four old tobaccj 



