1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLAXEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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turnips. The hay, oats, or whatever is given, should be in small quantities at a time, and always sprinkled with clean, soft water.

No, 376.

Broken Knees. Apply a poultice of bread and milk, or bread and warm water, to reduce the inflammation; then dress the wound with basilicon.

No 377. Burns and Scalds.

If slight, apply cold lead-water; if extensive, a liniment made of equal parts of linseed-oil and lime- water. If there is much f'^ver, bleed.

No. 378.

Canker.

Cut away freely all the diseased parts, and if necessary draw the frog; ther apply the following liniment.

No. 379. Liniment for Qankc^. "Warm 6 ounces tar, mix with it,

drop by drop,

1 ounce, by measure, oil of vitriol; then add 1 ounce oil of turpentine. Bind this ilrmly on the part, destroying all the diseased protubsranoeci with lunar-caustic. When the wound looks liCi?.?!}^;^ ^r^was it with the green ointment.