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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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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    one ounce, flour of brimstone three ounces, oil of turpentine one ounce, make them into balls. 64. For a distemper that was amongst the horses in 1769. Half an ounce of medical regulus of antimony in fine powder, twice a day; for three days in warm marshes ; then boil four ounces of liquorice root in three pints of water, to a pint and a half, in the strained liquor dissolve four ounces of honey, then add four ounces asthma- tic elixir, and half an ounce of daruvian bark. To be given every other day for a week. This was published in one of the ma- gazines as a certain cure. 65. For a tread or quitter for a horse. One third aquafortis, and two thirds tincture of myrrh. 66. For the worms. Savin, rue, a box of each, a handful cut fine and bruised, boiled in two quarts of water till it comes to one, and then strained.'