52 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 



No. 2. Alcohol, 16 ounces, spirits turpentine, 10 ounces, muriate of 

 ammonia, 1 ounce. Mix. 



No. 3. Alcohol, water, spirits of turpentine and soft soap, of each, 

 1 pint; salt, 6 ounces. Mix. 



Poll evil and Fistula. 



No. 1. Copperas, 1 drachm, blue vitriol, 2 drachms, common salt, 2 

 drachms, white vitriol, 1 drachm, mix, and powder fine. Fill a goose- 

 quill with the powder, and push it to the bottom of the pipe, having a 

 stick in the top of the quill, so that you can push the powder out of the 

 quill, leaving it at the bottom of the pipe; repeat again in about four 

 days, and in two or three days from that time you can take hold of the 

 pipe and remove it, without trouble. 



No. 2. Tincture of opium 1 drachm, potash, 2 drachms, water, 1 

 ounce ; mix, and when dissolved inject into the pipes with a small syringe, 

 having cleansed the sore with soap-suds ; repeat every two days until 

 the pipes are completely destroyed. 



No. 3. Take a small piece of lunar caustic, place in the pipe, after 

 being cleansed with soap suds, then fill the hole with sweet oil. 



Bots. 



Take new milk, 2 quarts, syrup, 1 quart; mix, and give the whole, and, 

 in fifteen or twenty minutes after, give 2 quarts of warm, strong sage 

 tea; half an hour after the tea, give 1 quart of raw linseed oil, or if 

 the oil cannot be had give lard*instead. 



Ointment for Horses. 



Bees-wax, 2 ounces, rosin, 3 ounces, lard, 4 ounces, carbolic acid, 1 

 drachm, honey, i ounce, melt all together and bring slowly to a boil, 

 then remove from the fire, and add slowly, 1 gillof spirits of turpentine, 

 stirring all the time until cool ; used with good success for galls, cracked 

 heels, flesh wounds or bruises. 



Condition Powders. 



No. 1. Gentian, fenugreek, sulphur, saltpetre, cream of tartar, of 

 each two ounces; resin, black antimony, of each 1 ounce; ginger, liquor- 

 ice, 3 ounces each; cayenne, I ounce, pulverized and mixed thoroughly; 

 dose: 1 tablespoonful, once or twice a day, mixed with the feed; used 

 with good success for coughs, colds, distemper, hide bound, and nearly 

 all diseases for which Condition Powders are given. 



No. 2. Fenugreek, 4 ounces, ginger, 6 ounces, anise, pulverized, 4 

 ounces, gentian, 2 ounces, black antimony, 2 ounces, hard wood ashes, 

 4 ounces; mix all together; excellent to give a horse an appetite. 



No. 3. Liquorice, 4 ounces, fenugreek, 4 ounces, elecampane, 4 

 ounces blood root, 1 ounce, tartar emetic, h ounce, ginger and cayenne, 



