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an ounce of assafoetida, one tea spoonful of salt 

 petre, mix them and give them as a drink three 

 times a week in the morning. Give an injection 

 of meal, water, molasses and lard. Rub him well 

 and exercise him moderately. A mash may be 

 given him of bran, sulphur, salt petre, sassafras 

 tea and assafoetida; but give no drink for six hours. 

 If all this answers no purpose* after a few days, 

 then take twenty-five grains of calomel, two 

 drachms of opium, one dram of powdered fennel 

 seed, mixed with some syrup into a ball, and give 

 it in the morning for three or four days. 



It is said that the following treatment, after re- 

 peated trials has proved effectual. 



Take juice of garlic six spoonfuls, and pour it 

 down the horse's throat by means of a horn or bot- 

 tle, or give it as a drench. If after two or three 

 hours there is no relief then repeat it. The juice 

 of the leek or onion, given in a greater quantity, will 

 produce nearly the same effect. 



It is pretty well ascertained that horses confined 

 in stables, seldom, if ever, have the staggers. 



Salivation in Horses. 



It is saidthat if parsley seeds are sown with clo- 

 ver seeds, the hay or grass produced by the mixture 

 will cure Slavers, or Salivation in horses, a trouble- 

 some complaint in which water runs profusely 

 from the mouths of the animals. 



Inflammation or Blindness of the Eyes. 



This disease has usually been found incurable, 

 and when a horse's eye has once been affected with 

 it, the proprietor is generally anxious to sell the 

 horse, aware of the disease returning sooner or la- 

 ter, and finally erminating in blindness 



