1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 395. Cvjre for Farcy,

Open the ulcers, and touch the inside of the edges shghtly with powdered verdigris, by means of a caniel's-hair pencil. At the same time give the fol- lowing ball: White arsenic 8 grains, and corrosive sublimate 6 grains, powdered and mixed with flour or bread, or any other vehicle that will form a ball with molasses. Keep the animal warm, mix chopped carrots with his mashes. Intermit one day, and give a similar ball ; if it purge, add 10 grains opium to Attend constantly to the ulcers; wash them with warm soap-suds, and keep the animal by him- self; if the disease gains the nostrils and head, and becomes glanders, shoot him at once. There is no remedy. it.

No. 396.

Grease.

Wash the part well with warm soap-suds twice a day, and if the swelling is great apply a poultice to it ; when the so-res are cleansed, touch them with a rag or feather dipped in the vulnerary-water.

No. 397.

Foundered Feet.

This is known by the contraction of the hoot, which will appear considerably smaller than the sound one. The horse just touches the ground with the toe of the foundered foot, on account of pain,

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