1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RL:CEIPTS.

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Take of pomegranate-shell, in powder, and pre- pared testaceous powder, each 1 onnce, Dover's powders, and ginger pow^dered, each 2 drachms. Mix, and give in a pint of warm gruel, and repeat twice a day. No. 428. Cough Drink. Take of Barbadoes tar, anisated balsam of sul- phur, each 1 ounce. Incorporate them with the yolk of an Qgg', then add nitre 1 ounce, ginger \ ounce, tincture of opium 1 ounce. Mix them to- gether. Let this drink be gradually mixed in a pint of warm ale or linseed tea, and give it in the morning, fasting; let the horse stand without food for 2 hours after, then give him a mash of scalded bran and oats and warm water. Repeat every othei morning, three or four times. Take of antimonial powder, tartarized antimony, and camphor, each 1 drachm, nitre, and Castile soap, each 2 drachms, Barbadoes aloes 2 drachms. Mix, and beat them into a ball with syrup of buckthorn. Let this ball be given to the horse about 2 hours after bleeding, and in 6 hours after giving him the ball, let him have the folio wiuir Purgative drink. — Take of Epsom salts 4 ounces, niire \ ounce, coarse sugar 2 tablespoonfuls. Dissolve them' in a quart of gruel, then add 10 2P No. 429. Fever-Balls for Horses.