1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

178

J- ounce nitre, 10 grains tartar-emetic, and 10

soap,

Make these into a ball with hone}',

grains opium.

Keep the horse

and give one every other night.

warm, and remedy costiveness by castor-oil.

No. 384.

Cor7is,

Let the farrier cut them out with a sharp knife. Should they show a disposition to grow again, touch them with oil of vitriol, or caustic, and dress them with green ointment. Be careful, in shoeing, not to let the shoe press on the corn.

No. 385.

Curb.

Cauterize the curb in a line down its middle, and then apply the blistering ointment.

No. 386.

Cracked Heels,

Poultice the parts with carrots, or turnips, boiled soft, three or four times; then anoint them with yellow basilicon, mixed with a little green ointment.

No. 387.

The Gripes. As soon as the disease is observed, give the drauglit oelow^, and a clyster composed of warm water. If there is great pain, with quick pulse, take away 8