1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

182 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

and stands in such a tottering way that you may shove him over with your hand. Cure. — Take oiF the shoe, bleed freely from the thigh-vein, and purge 2 or 3 times. Keep the hair close-trimmed and the parts clean.

No. 398. Hoof-Bound,

Cut several to the toe, all round the hoof, and fill the cuts with tallow and soap mixed. Take off the shoes and (if you can spare him) turn the animal into a wet meadow, where his feet will be kept moist. ITever remove the sole nor burn the lines down, as this increases the evil. lines from the coronet down

No. 399. Lampass.

This consists in a swelling of the first bar of the upper palate. It is cured by rubbing the swelling two or three times a day with half an ounce of alum and the same quantity of double-refined sugar mixed with a little honey.

No. 400.

Laxity,

Never attempt to stop the discharge too suddenly or too soon ; this conmion but erroneous practice has killed many fine horses. To begin the cure, give the following Mild purgative-ball : Rhubarb, in powder, 1 ounce; magnesia, J ounce j calomel, 1 scruple ; oil of anise-