1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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oe suffered to stop too long at a time in sucli pas- ture before they are removed into a fold-yard, or some close where there is but little to eat, in order that the organs of rumination and digestion may have time to discharge their functions. If this be attended to several times, it will take away that greediness of disposition, and prevent this distressing complaint. Treatment. — As soon as the beast is discovered to be either hoven or blown, by eating too great a quantity of succulent grasses, let a purging-drink be given : this will, for the most part, check fermenta- tion in the stomach, and in a very short time force a passage through the intestines. No. 480. Pur gill g-Drin ks. Take of Glauber's salts, 1 pound; ginger, in pow der, 2 ounces ; molasses, 4 ounces. Put all the in- gredients into a pitcher, and pour 3 pints of boiling water upon them. "When new-milk-warm, give the whole for one dose. Another. — Take (5f Epsom salts, 1 pound; anise- seed and ginger, in powder, each, 2 ounces ; molasses, 4 ounces. Let this be given ii? the same manner as the preceding. In most case? these drinks will be sufficient to purge a full-grown animal of this kind. By strict attention to the above method of application, a fever may be prevented, and the animal speedily restored. If the fever continues after the intestines have been evacuated, (which is seldom the case,) it will be