1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE REOEIPTS.

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keep in the stable during the winter. It will not only be found useful for greasy and scratched heels, but also for stubs and treads of every description. A small quantity must be rubbed on the part affected every night and morning, in slight cases; out in treads, or wounds upon the heels, it will be best to spread the ointment on pledgets of tow and secure them with bandages. No. 463. Astringent Embrocation for Strains in different parts. Take of camphor, 2 drachms, dissolved in J ounce strong rectified spirits of wine; nitre, 1 ounce, dis- solved in J pint wine vinegar; spirits of turpentine, 4 ounces ; white lead, or Armenian bole, in powder, J ounce ; aqua-fortis, 1 ounce. Mix, and shake them all together in a bottle for use. No. 464. Ifixture for Canker in the Mouth. Take of wine vinegar, J pint; burnt alum and common salt, each 1 ounce ; Armenian bole, J ounce. Mix, and shake them together in a bottle for use. It will be proper to dress the horse's mouth with tliis mixture, every morning and evening, in the fol- lowing manner: Take a small cane, or a piece of whalebone, half a yard long, and tie a linen rag, or a little tow, round one end; then dip it into the i^iixture, pass it up liis mouth, and gentlj' remove it to all the affected partd. Let him chanp it well about in his mouth; after which let him fast an hour, then give food as usual.