VETERINARY PATENT MEDICINES. 
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grandfathers, were helping cheerful idiots to become paupers. 
This stuff was u dead ” easy, requiring only 
I? Aquae ammoniae.i pint 
Water.3 pints 
Caramel q. s. to color. 
Mix. 
This stuff catches the race-horse man ; he uses it for what he 
calls a “brace.” It costs to make about two cents a pint, and 
sells for fiftv cents. The brace of course is on the fellow with 
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the horse. 
The next tussle was. with “Kendall’s Spavin Cure,” but 
after my experience with the balsam it didn’t take long to “ get 
next” to this. Farmers, livery men and embryo horsemen 
with wooden legged horses, who call every lameness a spavin, 
or, to be more sporty, a “ jack,” invest in this stuff until the 
vet is called in. The composition is as follows : 
1 } Turpentine.1 fl oz. 
Alcohol. 2 fl oz. 
Camphor . ]/ z oz. 
Iodine.25 grains 
Heavy petroleum oil . . . . l 4 fl dram 
Oil rosemary.1 fl dram 
Sig.—In the mixed oils dissolve the camphor and iodine. 
This spavin cure, so-called, is a fake of course. The stuff is a 
fair blister. 
After considerable trouble and no little expense, the com¬ 
position of a preparation called “Centaur Liniment,” claiming 
to be almost as wonderful as the caustic balsam, was arrived at. 
This preparation is a soap emulsion, with essential oils and the 
usual aromatic oils to disguise it. 
The 
composition 
follows : 
R Oil spearmint . 
. . I 
dram 
Oil mustard. 
• • 15 
mins 
Oil turpentine. 
• • X 
oz. 
Oil amber. 
• • X 
oz. 
Black oil. 
• • X 
oz. 
Soap. 
. . .130 grains 
Caustic soda. 
. . 10 
grains 
Water to make a pint. 
Great care should be used in preparing this, as the oils may not 
emulsify readily, and the water should be warm. 
