The gentleman's, farmer's & travellers pocket companion : containing many valuable preventatives incident to horses, cattle and sheep : also, many receipts for the cure of the same when diseased / by Henry C. Hicks, of Dorchester County, Maryland.

  • Hicks, Henry C.
Date:
1811
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Credit: The gentleman's, farmer's & travellers pocket companion : containing many valuable preventatives incident to horses, cattle and sheep : also, many receipts for the cure of the same when diseased / by Henry C. Hicks, of Dorchester County, Maryland. 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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    your poultice on to draw out the matter, and then tent with flax or tow dipped in ointment, To heal the wound, cleanse it with Indian physick, or poke root, boiled in chamber ley, as it keeps the hu- mours under, and reduces the swelling— it is also a great healer of wounds or sores. Of the diseases of the Go//, and especially of the Yellows. From the overflowing of the gall, which is the vessel of colour, springs many mortal diseases, especially the yel- lows, which is an extremly fainty and mortal sickness if not prevented in time. The signs are, yellowness of the eyes and skin, and chiefly undeineath the up- per lip next to the foreteeth; a sudden faint, falling down on the high way, or in the stable, and an universal sweat over all the body. The cure is—first bleed the horse in the neck or mouth, or under the eyes ; then take two spoonsful of saffron, (which may be had at the apothecary's, and it is raised in gardens, for it is a herb with the blossoms of which women often dye yellow)