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Horses and Cattle
Tonic. Sulphate of Copper, 1 oz. to 12 drs.; Sugar, 5 ozs. Mix and divide into 8 powders, and give one or two daily in food.
Cordial. Opium, 1 dr.; Ginger, 2 drs.; All-spice, 3 drs.: and Caraway'seeds, 4 drs., all powdered. Make into a ball with Sirup, or give as a drench in gruel. Cordial Astringent Drench for Diarrhea, Purging, or Scouring. - Tincture of Opium, 5 ozs.; All-spice, 2½ drs.; powdered Caraway, 1/2 oz.; Catechu Powder, 2 drs. Strong ale or gruel, I pint. Give every morning until purging ceases. For sheep, give 14 this quantity.
For Alterative. Ethiops' mineral, 1½ oz.; Cream of Tartar, 1 oz.; Nitre, 2 drs. Divide into from 16 to 24 doses, and give one, morning and evening, in all cutaneous. diseases.
Diuretic Ball. -Hard soap and turpentine, each 4 drs.; Oil of Juniper, 20 drops, and powdered Resin to form a ball.
For Dropsy, Water Farcy, Broken Wind, or Febrile Diseases.-Add to above All-spice and Ginger, each 2 drs. Divide into 4 balls, and give one morning and evening.
Alterative or Condition Powder. - Resin and Nitre, each 2 ozs.; levigated Antimony, I oz. Mix for 8 to 10 doses and give one morning and evening. When given to cattle add Glauber-salts, one pound.
Divide Sirup to form a mass. bowels are relaxed, then give Fever Ball. Cape Aloes 2 oz.; Nitre, 4 ozs.; into 12 balls, and give one morning and evening until alterative powder or worm ball.
Hoof Ointment.-Tar and Tallow, each I lb.; Turpentine, 1/2 lb. Melt and mix.
DOGS.
Melt and Cathartic. Sirup of Buckthorn, 3 parts; Sirup of White Poppies, 1 part; Castor Oil, 2 parts. -Dose a tablespoonful for a dog 16 to 20 lbs. weight. Emetic.-2 or 4 grs. of Tartar Emetic in a meat-ball or a teaspoonful of common salt. Distemper Powder. Antimonial Powder, 2, 3, or 4 grs.; Nitre, 5, 10, or 15 grs.; Ipecacuanha, 2, 3, or 4 grs. Make into a ball and give 2 or 3 times a day. If there is much cough, add from 1/2 a gr. to 1 gr. Digitalis, and every 3 or 4 days give an emetic.
Mange Ointment. - Powdered Aloes, 2 drs.; White Hellebore, 4 drs.; Sulphur 4 oz.; Lard 6 oz. For Red Mange, add 1 oz. of mercurial ointment, and apply a muzzle.
Vermifuge. Freshly-grated Areca Nut should be given, mixed with a little savory broth, and as soon as mixed, or the broth will become bitter. Dose-2 grs. for every lb. of the dog's weight, but in no case more than 2 drs. Keep the dog without food long enough to empty the stomach, and three hours after the dose let him have a tablespoonful of the Cathartic. To be repeated two or three times at intervals of five days.