The pocket farrier, or, Approved receipts : collected from different authors with an intent to cure or assist any immediate accidents that may happen to a horse till further help can be had.

Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The pocket farrier, or, Approved receipts : collected from different authors with an intent to cure or assist any immediate accidents that may happen to a horse till further help can be had. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    fuse two ounces of aniseed with a drachm of saffron in a pint and a half of boiling' water, pour off the clear, and add four ounces of honey and four spoonfuls of salad oil. This drink might be given every night. Or two ounces of Barbadoes tar, four ounces of aniseed finely powered, and one ounce of sirup of colts foot in some warm ale. 27. To char the head, when stuffed with cold. Elecampane powder, a pipe full blown up the horse's nostrils. 28. Pectoral balls for a cold. Fresh powdered aniseed, elecampane, caraways, liquorish, turmerick and rlomr of brimstone, each three ounces, Spa- nish juice four ounces dissolved in a suf- ficient quantity of mountain wine ; saffron powdered half an ounce, salad oil and honey each half a pound, oil of aniseed an ounce, mix together with wheat flour enough to make a paste. To be given