1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

172 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

these means not relieve the animal, omit the ball, and give 1 drachm opium twice a day.

No. 366. Blood Spavin,

Clip off the hair from the swelling, and rub all round outside of the swelling with a piece of hard brown soap ; then apply to the swelling a blistei made of the following

No. 367. Blistering Ointment

Take hog's lard, | ounce ; beeswax, 3 drachms sublimate, in fine powder, J drachm; Spanish flies, 2 drachms. Mix them all well, and spread it on white leather, and apply it to the spavin. No. 368. Bone Spavin. This may be treated like the former: it is, The operation of firing, (which should be done by a professed farrier,) and turning to grass, aftbrd the only reasonable chances of relief. how ever, generally incurable.

No. 369.

Bats.

Three kinds of worms infest the bowels of horses, called by the English farriers hots, truncheons, and maw-worms. The hot infests the great gut near