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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    39. For the bots. Half an ounce or an ounce of tobacco in the horse's feed, or aethiops mineral half an ounce a day in a bit of cordial or pectoral ball. Or mercurial physic. 40. For the jaundice. Bleed if very costive, rake or give a clyster. 41. An opening ball for the jaundice. Castile soap one ounce, common rhu- barb and tartar of vitriol, each half an ounce, washed down with the following- drink. 42. A drink for the jaundice. Turmerant and alicant soap, each one ounce, salt of tartar half an ounce, in a pint of gruel or ale, given night and morning, will generally cure. Or balls of castile soap and turmerick, equal quantities, may be given to the quantity of three or foul' ounces a day. 43. For the farcy. jEthiops mineral two ounces, fast twelve hours before and seven after,