1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

38

— 1 teaspoon ful two or three times a

Dose.

for use.

day, and as you can stand it.

No. 46. To make an Ointment to heal Wounds in Horses. Put into a well-glazed earthen vessel 2 ounces beeswax and 2 ounces rosin. When this is melted, put in I pound hog's lard ; to this put 4 ounces tur- pentine ; keep stirring all the time with a clean stick. "When all is well mixed, stir in 1 ounce of pulverized verdigris ; be careful that it don't boil over : it ought to be a coal fire. Strain it through a coarse cloth, and preserve it in a gallipot. This ointment is very good for old and recent wounds, whether in flesh or hoof; also galled backs, cracked heels, mallender, sallenders, bites, broken heels, &c. No. 47. To make a Drawing Ointment. Take elder-root and the seed of Jamestown-weed and fry it in lard. It will draw any splinters out of the flesh, or any thing else in man. How to make Blue Water, to cure Wounds in Horses. Take 1} pounds unslaked lime; put it into an earthen pot, (glazed ;) pour 2 quarts warm water on it ; let it stand 3 days : stir it 3 or 4 times a day after it is settled, pour off the pure water; add 2 ounces sal ammoniac and 3 grains camphor; dis- solve the sal ammoniac and camphor in alcohol ; let No. 48.