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about one quart; when cool, give it to the beast: then, having 
ready a pint of common salt, put into a quart bottle filled up 
with chamberlye, shake it well until the salt be dissolved, and 
immediately give it'to the beast*.” Shall we do better with cow- 
doctors? First stands Mr. Clater, “ Farrier, Cattle-Doctor, and 
Druggist,” whose works have run through almost innumerable 
editions, and have even been translated into the French. “ Take 
of str ained Turpentine, 4 oz., Armenian Bole, Lay-berries, and 
Red Saunders, each 2 oz., beat them together in a mortar, and 
make them into one ball, and if it be thought proper, four taole- 
spoons full of Spirits of Turpentine may be added. The following 
drink I have known to cure this disease, after others have fruit¬ 
lessly been administered. Take strong Spirit oi Vitriol (Sulphu¬ 
ric Acid), ■§■ oz.! Tincture of Opium, |-oz. Treacle, four table¬ 
spoons full; mix, and give it in two quarts of warm gruel. This may 
be repeated once a day, until a cure be obtained'!'*” h 
Mr. Skellett, “ Professor of this part of the Veterinary Art,” 
copies from Clater with little variation, and without acknow¬ 
ledgment. “Take of Turpentine, 3 oz., Red Saunders, Bay- 
berries, Bole-Armenian, 2 oz. each, and Nitre, 1 oz., which is to 
be made up for one dose, and given in two quarts of water-gruel, 
and to be repeated once a dayj.” 
Mr. J. C. Knowlson “has been fifty-seven years in full busi¬ 
ness,” and his work, as I have already stated, contains a collec¬ 
tion of the best recipes, from practice alone !! some of them worth 
ten guineas each, and all new to the world He gives us an ad¬ 
mirable account of the cause of this disease. “This complaint is 
very common, but not well understood, and may be known at thel 
beginning by the dung(!); for as the gall has a pipe into thesmal_ 
intestines, as well as into the pipes that lead through the kid 
neys to the bladder, therefore when the gall is discharged into 
the small intestines, it causes the animal’s dung to be thin ; also it 
is forced from it in small quantities, about the thickness of one’s 
finger||.” What a luminous and admirable description of inflam¬ 
mation of the kidneys !! “ High winds, if cold, dry up the pores, 
and cause the blood to flow more violently into the large vessels, 
which brings on this disorder. Bad water also forwards it; for 
when afterwards they come to good, they take too freely of it, 
which overloads the bowels, and forces them hard against the mid¬ 
riff, bringing too much weight on the vessels, which causes them 
to break^f.” But new light bursts on him as he proceeds, and 
blasts us inferior and blundering anatomists and physiologists 
* Parkinson, i,243. t Clater’s “ Every Man liis own Cattle-Doctor/’ p. 91. 
t Skcllct’s Practical Treatise, p. 251. 
§ Know Ison’s Cattle and Horse-Doctor, Title-page. 
|| Knowlson, p. 38. H Ditto, p. 40. 
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