Veterinary recipe book, 18th century

Veterinary recipe book which appears to consist mainly of recipes for treating horses. An almanac for 1856 is pasted inside the front cover, giving a rough date for the volume

Recipes are as follows:
Eye lotion
To dry a broken knee
Strong stimulating oils
Cooling lotion
To get the hair on the knee
Pole evil
Horse with sore throat
Draught 25
Draught 26
Tonic balls
Mixture for grease
Another mixture for grease
Fever balls
Diuretic balls
Physic mass
Balls for chronic cough
Blister ointment
Blister liquid
Embrocation for curb
Mild ointment after blister
Green digestive ointment
Yellow mixture for frogs
Red mixture to dry up wounds
Mange mixture
Mixture for overeaches (foul foot wounds)
For cracked heels
Tonic balls
For worms
For the shivers
Cordial balls
For thrush
For swelled legs
For canker in the mouth
For cuts, sprains or bruises
Cough medicine
Alternative powders
Calomel balls
Cordial balls
Ointment for feet stopping
Mixture for lice
Ointment for stopping feet
For worms
For sprains (x2)

The recipes continue in a different hand:
Green ointment
A drench for colic or gripes
Beach oils
Lotion for joint oils
Digestive ointment
Mixed oils for wounds
Bracing mixture for sprains
Drench to stop looseness
Mercurial balls for worms
Lotion for eyes
Sweating linament
Linament for the mange
For the mange in a horse
Fever powder
For a mare after foaling that cannot clean
For a sprain in a horse
Ball for their wind
White ointment
Green ointment
Mercurial ointment
For a horse in a fever
For inflammation in kidnies
Water to eat away fungus on proud flesh
For swelled legs or bad sprains
For sprain in the legs
For wounds in general
Blistering ointment after fever
Distemper or influenza
Embrocation for sprains in different parts
Alternative balls
For inflamaton or colic
For seedy toe or canker in a horses foot
Black oils
White oils
For earaches

At the very end of the volume, after many blank pages:
Sponge compo[und]
Paste compo[und]

c.1856

1 volume 18.5 x 12 cm. Brass clasp. Vellum covers.

Purchased May 2015.