158 ^N SPRING WHEAT, &C, 



if I find the horse very hot and feverifli, and sweating 

 pvofusely, as is usually the case in this disease, I ordei- him 

 to be bled plentifully, and an Ounce or more of nitre to be 

 mixed, and administered xvith the laudanum, keeping the 

 horse warm, and lettiag him be weU rubbed round the 

 belly. 



A very considerable farmer near me, whohiis had a medi- 

 cal education, told me, a few days a^o, that Ixe had not lost 

 a horse since he gave them laxidanura. 

 Equally useful T^n days ago I was equally fortunate in a trial of it on 

 to sheep, with ^^^ ^x* j-^y sheep, which, half an hour after being washed 

 common salt. • , , fin i -n 



with the rest of the flock, was taken so extremely nl, and 



swelled so much, that my herdsman supposed she could not 

 live, having lost some of his own, which had apparently 

 been in the same state. I immediately ordered half a hand- 

 ful of common salt to be dissolved in half an English pint 

 of warm water, into which 1 put sixty drops of the lauda- 

 num, and poured it with difficulty down the animal's throat, 

 which seemed nearly dead. For the fifstfive minutes I had 

 so little hopes of the sheep's recovery, that I ordered the 

 man to get his knife ready to cut her throat; whilft he 

 sharpened the instrument for such purpose, he observed the 

 animal to move his jaw to a proper position, which had pre-- 

 viously been much distorted ; the eyes then began to quicken, 

 and apparently to become at ease. In half an hour after- 

 wards the sheep got on her legs, and remained standing for 

 some time ; a plentiful evacuation soon took place, the swel- 

 ling subsided^ she continued to recover, and in a few hours 

 from the first attack began to eat and do well. 



My intent in these communications is to render generally 

 public what I have found so very beneficial. At this time, 

 when horses and cattle are so extremely high in price, every 

 thing that can tend to preserve their lives, fliould be made 

 known and p;;tto trial. 



opium. 



Poppies culti- I formerly noticed to you, that I had ti'ied on a small 

 ^^^,fS°^ •^'^^ scale, for several years, the culture of white poppies to pre- 

 pare opium from them, and an extract or syrup of poppies: 

 that I had raised a sufficient supply for myself and friends, 

 and that my extraqt was equal in effect to any prepared from 



foreign 



