Every man his own horse, cattle, and sheep doctor, or A practical treatise on the diseases of horses, horned cattle, and sheep : together with the most simple and effectual method of curing each disorder, throughout all its various stages : to which is added, an appendix, including the author's public medicines, with directions for use ; and a collection of choice recipes for families, &c.

Front matter

EVERY MAN

HIS OWN

DOCTOR ;

Introduction

The following Treatise on the Dlseases of Horses, Neat Cattle, and Sheep, is not the production of a few years study, but the result of about thirty years practice ; and the author’s motives for publishing this Treatise on the disorders incident to these valuable animals, are as follow:

first. To gratify and profit a number of Gentlemen Farmers and Graziers, & c* in the neighbourhood of Melton Mow?

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bray, who have for a number of years been frequently soliciting him to the performance of this work.

Secondly, He believes it will be of general use, for if strict attention be paid to the rules laid down in this Treatise, any person will be able to understand the disorder ; and by carefully applying such Recipes as are prescribed, with good drugs, will be enabled to effect a cure, in the most obstinate cases. .

It is necessary to observe that much de* pends upon having the drugs genuine, as well as adhering to the various modes herein mentioned for extracting or retaining their virtues, as without this care the most valuable Recipes may be rendered useless.'-— I shall now briefly state what is contained in this Treatise.

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I. A concise description of every disease

has been given, together with a particular method of treating the same through every stage.

II. The proper method of compounding

the different medicines is also detailed, detecting their qualities and regulating their doses, suitable to age and size.

III. A number of valuable Recipes are here made known, such as have never before been published to the author’s knowledge.

IV. An Appendix is added, containing the preparation of the author s public medicines, with directions for use. — * Also a collection of choice Recipes for Families.

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Cattle of every" description are valuable in this island, more so now than formerly. If a poor man lose a horse or a cow, it frequently ruins him : when, at the same time, if a drink or two, at a shilling or eighteen-pence each, had been given to the animal, it might have been saved, provided the medicines were administered according to the directions laid down in this Treatise. It is the interest of every Farmer and Grazier to make himself acquainted with the different diseases of Cattle, their symptoms and different methods of treatment, and if this were more generally the case, he would rarely, if ever, have occasion to employ either Farrier or Cow-leech. Medicines, when wrongly applied, or not given in a sufficient quantity, increase the malignity of most diseases, while too large a dose may endanger the animal’s life. By strict attention to the following rules, most persons will be en»

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abled to act with propriety and judgment.

Particular diseases, requiring more than ordinary care, are discussed at considerable length. Such are the Down-fall in the Udder of Cows, Red Water, Fevers, &c. &c. &c. A small part of this work is appropriated to the description of the diseases incident to young Calves, together with the medicines suitable to each. Also there will be found a short Treatise on Sheep, containing their different diseases, symptoms, and methods of cure. All superfluous matters are omitted, and nothing but the nature and symptoms of every disease clearly pointed out, together with its proper cure ; so that persons of small abilities may, in a short time, acquire sufficient knowledge to practice therein.

As Neat Cattle certainly constitute

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The most common names in use, which are given to these animals, are those of Neat Cattle , or Black Cattle. Under these appellations are included both sexes, as the Ox, Bull, and Cow ; their generic characters are as follow :

Cloven footed, with or without horns, horns bending out laterally.

Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, and none in the upper.

Skin along the lower side of the neck pendulous.

Rounded horns, with a large space between their bases.

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Neat Cattle are called by various Other names 5 as the Urus , Auroch, (a common name for a bull of the temperate climate, and the Bison, or bull, a native of hot countries. The bunch on the shoulders of a Bison, is doubtless a natural production and is very large when the animal is in high condition; on the contrary, when reduced by poverty, it is barely discernible, and, by inter-copulation with others that bear no such mark, this bunch will in the course of two or three descents be entirely lost.

The all-wise disposer of events has thought it good to reduce all the animal creation under the power and dominion of man.

Neat Cattle, may be said to rank foremost in the animal creation, especially when we consider their great utility, and

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INTRODUCTION* the wonderful variety of productions these valuable animals afford towards the support and use of mankind. The milk, which a single cow will yield, from the time of calving to the time of letting dry, is an amazing quantity ; from this are produced butter and cheese, no trifling articles of human provision. There is, in fact, scarcely a part about this useful animal, but what is of infinite use ; even the Blood, is applied to different purposes. Butchers use it to feed swine ; the chemist employs it in the preparation of Prussian blue ; and the farmer for manuring his land.

Further, the Fat or Tallow of Neat Cattle is made into candles, which contribute not a little to the increase of our domestic comforts. The Hides, when tanned and curried, make leather of the best and strongest kind, from which boots.

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XI shoes, and numberless other articles are manufactured. The Hair is used in a cement for the walls of our dwellinghouses, and the Horns are made into combs, handles for knives, drinking vessels, and a great variety of toys of different descriptions. The Bones are a cheap substitute for Ivory, from which a great number of useful articles are made by mechanics in large manufacturing towns ; and the Flesh of this noble animal forms one of the most delicious and substantial dishes at our tables.

The form or construction of these animals varies according to every climate; but our present concern, is with the native breeds of our country. A great variety is to be met with in most counties or districts throughout the kingdom; it is greatly to be regretted, that farmers in general are so full of confidence in their own knowledge b 2

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as to the respective breeds, which are best adapted to their own farms ; and that prejudices thus deeply seated, are so hard tq be eradicated. There is, notwithstanding, a considerable number of gentlemen graziers, in most counties, who have made a great improvement in the breed of Neat Cattle, which is much to their credit.

Such cattle as are intended to be reared, or brought up for the Dairy, or to fatteq in the pasture, ought to be bred from cows of good make and shape, and which have been got by a bull of the same description. The shape and make of the male are, in most counties, eagerly sought for, and are found to be equally as necessary as the choice of a stallion for mares, or a tup for ewes. When farmers first enter upon a farm they should make themselves acquainted with the nature and quality of the soil ; whether it be better adapted for introduction.

xiii breeding and rearing of stock ; for keeping a dairy or for the feeding of stock for the shambles. This consideration ought at all times to be regarded. It rarely happens that cattle, purchased from rich lands, do well on poor soils, but, on the contrary, those taken from poor farms, in general thrive well on good land. The choice of Neat Cattle, therefore, for the stocking of farms, should be regulated according to the nature and quality of the soil.

The Age of Neat Cattle should be understood by every one, who has any thing to do with them. They as well as sheep, have no teeth in the upper jaw, the age, therefore, must be determined by those on the lower jaw. At two years old, they get two new corner teeth, and every succeeding year they get two more, until they are five years old ; at six years old they become full mouthed, the last two being completely up.

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There is another method, by which the age of-NEAT Cattle may be determined, viz. by the horns. At the age of three years their horns are smooth and even ; and every succeeding year there is a wrinkle or circle round the basis near the head, which keeps moving the other forward ; so that if the first wrinkle be stated at three years old, it will be easy to tell the age of any beast after that time,

Young Cattle are for the most part, best understood by the following names. The Bull, while sucking, is called a BulU Cal/ ; and from one to two years old, a Stark or a Yearling Bull ; every year after? wards he is called a Bull of three, four, five, and six years old, after which period he be? comes aged. A young castrated male, after the first year is called a Stot-Calf or Stirk ? Slot, and then a Steer ; at four years old he receives the name of a Bullock. A female at the first is called a Quey-Calf ; and &

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Heifer till the age of four years ; she then takes the name of a Cow, which is retained as long as she lives.

As soon as Neat Cattle arrive at the state of maturity, they are called by the appellation of Ox, Bull, and Cow. There is a regular time for gestation amongst the females of different animals ; the Cow goes nine months in calf, sometimes a week more or a week less. The Mare goes eleven months; and Sheep five months; the Sow one hundred and fifty days.— These may all vary a few days more or less ; they should be attended to day and night about the regular time of parturition, in order that every assistance may be given to the animal that nature may require ; in order that the young may be preserved, and the life of the animal rescued from imminent danger.

TABLE OF

THE CONTENTS

I'D PART THE FIRST OF THIS WORK.

On the Diseases of Horses,,

SECTION. PAGE.

I. Directions for the Management

of Horses 1

II. Bleeding * . .*.»•» 2

III. Purging ...... i » 3

IV. Windy Colic . . . 4 . . . 8

V. Inflammatory Colic, or Gripes * io

VI. Dry Gripes, or Colic . . . . . li

VII. Colds and Coughs . i . * . . 12

VIII. The Dry Cough- . .> ... 1 5

IX. Asthma and Cough . . ... 16

XI. Surfeits, Hide- bound, and

Mange . 27

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CONTENTS,

SECT.

XII.

PAGE,

Staggers, Convulsions, Lethargy, Epilepsy, and Vertigo

XIII. Fevers

XIV. Bruises ......

XV. Strangles, and Vives , .

XVI. Diseases of the Eyes

XVII. Symptoms of Moon-Eyes .

XVIII. Pleurisy and Inflammation of the Lungs .....

XIX. Broken Wind ....

.XX. Yellows, or Jaundice , .

XXI. Alterative Medicines . ,

XXII. Molten-Grease f , , .

XXIII. Hurts and Strains in the Kid. nies

XXIV-, Worms . . . ,

XXV., Strains in various Parts . XXVI. Firing .......

XXVII. Wounds in various Parts . XXVIII. Wounds in the Elbow, Stifle,

&c

XXIX. Humours oozing from the Joint

(commonly called Joint-Oil) 80

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Contents

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SECT. PAGE.

XXX. Ulcers 82

PART THE SECOND OF THIS WORK. On the Diseases of Horned Cattle

SECTION. ” PAGE,

I. Felon, Epidemic Colds, or Influenza . . . . .... 141

II. Peripneumony, or an Inflammation of the Lungs 14(5

III. The Yellows, or Jaundice . . 150

IV. Inflammation of the Brain . . 154

V. Murrain, or the Pestilential Fever 159

VI. Black Leg, Quarter-Evil, or. Black-

VII. Red Water, and Black Water . 173

VIII. Diarrhoea, or Rottenness . , . 177

IX. Inflammation of the Liver . . 183

X. Inflammation of the Kidnies . . 187

XL Inflammation of the Stomach . 191

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CONTENTS.

XII. Colic, or Gripes .... 195

XIII. Fog Sickness, Hoven, or Blown 201

XIV. Staggers, Vertigo, or Swim-

ming in the Head . . • 206

XV. The Milk Fever .... 2x0

XVI. To extract the Placenta, or the Cleansing from the Cow, after Calving . >217

XVII. How to extract a Calf, when it presents itself in a wrong position ...... 221

XVIII. The Falling-down of the Calf-

XIX. Locked Jaw .... . 230

XX. On theUtility of Purging Medicines in most Diseases incident to Horned Cattle . 2.33

XXI. The Hoose, or Cough . . 236

XXII. Rheumatism, or Joint Felon . 239

XXIII. Poisons ....... 243

XXIV. The Bite of Venomous Reptiles

XXV. The Down-fall in the Udder

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of Cows (known also by the name of Sore Udders] . 248 XXVI. Wounds 253

XXVII. Wounds of the Joints . . 263

XXVIII. Strains and Bruises . . . 265

XXIX. Cancerous Ulcers .... 268

XXX. The Foul in the Foot . . . 272

XXXI. To Dry a Cow of her Milk . 274

XXXII. Angle Berries 278

XXXIII. Sore Teats ...... 280

XXXIV. The Mange 281

XXXV. Lice in Cattle 284

XXXVI. Warbles 287

XXXVII. To make a Cow take the

Bull 288

XXXVIII. Bull Burnt 290

XXXIX. Cows that Slink or Slip their

Calves sgz

XL. Blood, its Nature and Property . . . . . . ,295

XLI. Bleeding, its Utility and when

necessary 297

XLII. The Cow Pox ..... zgg d %

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CONTENTS,,

SECT.

XL'III. Wood Evil, Moor 111, Clue Bound, or Fardal Bound and Pantas ....

XLIV. On Diseases that are incident to Young Calves, and the Method of Treating Cows after Calving

XLV. The Method of Treating the Navel String after Extraction .....

XLVI. Diarrhoea, or Dysentery . .

XLVII. Costiveness in Young Calves XL VII I. The Hoose in Calves . . ,

XLIX. Observations on the proper Method of dividing the different Drinks mentioned in this Treatise, suitable for Horned Cattle from the age of one year and ...... upwards ......

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TABLE OF

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PART THE THIRD OF THIS WORK. On the Diseases of Sheep

SECT. PAGE.

I. The Lambing Season .... 325

II. On the Diseases of Young Lambs 333

III. Red Water 33 ^

IV. The Rot 33 8

V. The Scab 346

VI. Sheep Lice, and Ticks . . .351

VII. Inflammation in the Udder of

Ewes . 354

VIII. The Foot Halt and the Foot Rot 356

IX.. The Scour, or Diarrhoea . . . 360

X.. To prevent the Fly 362

XI. Sore Heads 365

XII.. Maggots . . 367

XIII.. Debility and Indigestion . . .369

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SECT.

XIV. Inflammation .

XV. Wounds . .

PAGE,

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XVI. The Disease of the Eye, commonly called Blindness .... 373

Appendix

PAGE,

Pearson’s Ague Pills ....... 377

Anodyne 3 jg

Asthmatic, and Chin-Cough Drops 381

Restorative Balsam Another Balsam

Cordial .

Grand Stomachic Elixir Purging Pills

Daffy ’s Elixir . . .....

Extract of Saturn, called Goulard

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PAGE.

Camphorated Spirits of Wine .... 398

Diapente Powder did.

Opodeldoc 399

Ointment 4 ° 2

Syrup of Buckthorn • * 4°4

Tincture of Asafretida 4°5

Col umbo did.

Opium 4°d

Myrrh did.

Compound .... 4°7

Rhubarb . 4°8

Euphorbium 4°9

To prevent the Smut in Wheat . . • • 4 10

THE following errors had escaped the Author in writing the copy, and living at a distance from the Printer, they were unobserved till after the work was printed off. — The reader will be pleased to make the corrections with his pen.

In seventh line, page 15, after “(No. 1)” add “page 143.” In twelfth line, same page, instead of “ (No. 3)” read “(No. 11, page 16)” and after “(No. 1)” add “page 143.”

In second line, page 158, instead of “ antispasmodic,” read “ spasmodic.”

EVERY MAN

HIS OWN

PART THE FIRST*

SECTION I. Directions for management of Horses

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JL HE best method of treating horses is never to bleed or purge them, except in cases which evidently require such operation. A horse’s food chiefly consists of grain and herbage, which if good in quality, and dispensed with judgment, (not omitting proper exercise and dressing) will secure him from those complicated disorders he is subject to by improper treatment.

SECTION II. Bleeding

Phlebotomy or bleeding is useful when a horse stands much in the stable, is full fed, and has little or no exercise; when his legs are swelled, or his eyes look heavy, red, and inflamed ; also when he is thriving, or rubbing his hair off, in all inflammatory fevers, in falls, bruises, hurts of the eyes and strains, accompanied with inflammation. To know what quantity of blood you take away, it is necessary you bleed by measure, in most cases two and a half or three quarts may be sufficient. The following mixture is excellent for cooling and purging the blood.

Task— C rocus of antimony, finely levigated, half an ounce :

Nitre, one ounce;

Mix them together, and divide them into ttvo parts-.

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Let one part be given at night, and the other in the morning, in a mash of scalded bran, or a feed of corn, moistened with water, that the powder may stick thereto.

This medicine is excellent for a horse in the spring of the year, if given him as directed, for two or three weeks, it will keep his body cool, and cause him to cast his coat.

SECTION III. On Purging

Purging is most proper for horses of gross, and full habit of body, that lose their appetite by full feeding, or a load of ingendered crudities upon the stomach ; in this case two or three purges will be necessary. Before a purge is given, the body should be prepared, by giving mashes of scalded bran and oats, and warm water, two or three days before,

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This will so open the horse’s bowels, that the purge will not meet with any obstruction; but if a strong purge be given to a horse of a costive habit, it will probably occasion a violent inflammation. This may be imputed to the large ■tract of bowels it has to pass through, which is upwards of thirty yards; and the time the physic lies in the bowels is seldom less than twenty-four hours. If the above direction for preparing a horse for physic be observed, there will seldom any danger ensue.

FOR PURGING.

Take — Barbadoes aloes, eight drachms ;

Salt of tartar, twodiachms;

Ginger, two drachms;

Twenty drops of oil of cloves;

Make these into a ball, with the syrup of buckthorn.

This purge should be given in the morning, on an empty stomach : in three hours after give your horse a feed of scalded bran, warm, and a little good hay often, but not much at a time; also two more mashes the same day. But if he refuses them, give him raw bran. Take care the water you give him be new milk warm. Early the next morning give him a mash, and warm water; clothe him, and ride him gently about two or three times a day. If the physic works too much, give him less water and less exercise; if too little, give him more exercise, and as much warm water as he will drink ; at night, when the physic has done working, give him a feed of oats and bran.

While a horse’s physic is working, suffer him not to go out in the rain, but walk him about in a dry place ; and give him warm water, if he will drink it, two or three days after the physic has done working. The following ball is excellent for a delicate horse.

Take — Barbadoes aloes, six drachms ;

Rhubarb, four drachms ;

Ginger, one drachm ;

Oil of cloves, twenty drops ;

Make these into a ball, with syrup of buckthorn.

For a strong hackney, coach, or waggonhorse, the aloes may be increased to eight or nine drachms, according to their strength,

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Mercurial physic is proper in lameness of the joints, and in all kinds of eruptions, amd foulness of the blood.

Take — Calomel, two drachms;

Liquorice powder, half an ounce ;

Make into a ball, with conserve of roses.

Give this at night, and the purging ball in page 4, next morning; some horses are subject to over-purge, in such cases give one ounce of restorative balsam, and one drachm of tincture of opium, in one pint of warm ale; it will check the purging, and dispel the griping pains a horse is subject to from excess of purging.

If a horse swells much with physic, he should be walked about gently in hand, till some evacuation be obtained, and if this should not succeed, recourse must be had to a cooling, purging clyster, for which give the following.

Take — Mutton broth, one quart;

Epsom salts, four ounces ;

Common treacle, half a pound ;

Olive oil, half a pint;

Dissolve tire salts and treacle in the broth, then add the oil.

Before a clyster is given, a small hand should be dipped in the same, and passed up his fundament, to bring away the hardened dung, which may be the chief cause of the horse swelling. — The clyster should be administered with a pipe ten or twelve inches long, and a strong bladder fixed at the end thereof; the liquid to be forced through the pipe, by twisting the bladder with vour hands. As soon as the horse has received

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it, take away the pipe, and immediately put a wisp of straw to the horse’s fundament, holding it there with the tail for the space of ten minutes.

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SECTION IV. Windy Cholic , how known and cured

The windy cholic is known by the following remarks, the horse often lies down, and suddenly rises again with a spring; strikes his belly with his hind feet, stamps with his fore feet, and refuses every kind of food. When this disorder is violent, it throws his body into convulsive motions; his eyes are turned up, and his limbs stretched' out as if dying; his ears and feet are sometimes hot, and sometimes cold; he falls into profuse sweats, and then into cold damps ; he strives often to stale, and turns his head frequently to his flank ; he then falls down, and rolls about, and often turns on his back : this last symptom generally proceeds from a stoppage in the urine, which attends this sort of cholic; and the pain is often increased by a load of dung pressing on the neck of the bladder. As soon as possible after the complaint is discovered, give the horse two ounces of restorative balsam, in one pint of warm ale; and the following clyster, if the symptoms do not abate in two hours, repeat the drink.

FOR THE CLYSTER*

Take— Linseed, five ounces; boll it in three quarts of water until it is reduced to two ; let it stand ten minutes, then pour oft' the clear, and dissolve therein four ounce of Epsom salts ; half a pound of treacle ; and one handful of common salt.

Let it be observed, that before any clyster be administered, a small hand well rubbed with the clyster, should be passed up the horse’s fundament, in order to bring away the hardened dung, which otherwise would obstruct the clyster’s passage. This will work the desired effect in all common cases.

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SECTION V. Inflammatory Gripes

i his sort or cholic, or gripes, is attended with great danger, and if a remedy be not speedily appiiea, often proves fatal. The disorder is attended with a fever, great heat, and dryness of the month; the horse generally throws out bits of dung with scalding hot water, which is offensive m smeli ; and his urine is blackish. When this is the case the bowels are in a state of nsortification, and there is no relief; but if the disease be undertook in an earlier stage, a cure may be effected, If the horse be in good condition, bleed plentifully, then give the clyster, page 7, and two ounces of restorative balsam, in one pint of warm ale. This may be repeated every eight hours, and the clyster every four. If the symptoms are violent, and attended with convulsive motions, two drachms of fetid tincture, and two drachms of tincture of opium may be added to- the above drink. If the symptoms do not i-IORSE, CATTLE, AND SHEER DOCTOR. 11 abate in three hours after the second drink, give the fever mixture as ordered in Recipe 27, and continue to repeat the clyster every four hours.

SECTION VI. Dry Gripes or Cholic

This disorder is discovered by the horse’s frequent motion in straining to dung ; the blackness and hardness of it, the frequent and quick motion of his tail, and by often endeavouring to stale, but can only do it in small quantities, which is occasioned by a load of dung pressing on the neck of the bladder. This sort of cholic seldom needs any other assistance than the following clyster, after a small hand has been dipped therein, and passed up the fundament, to bring away the hardened dung which is lodged in the great gut,

FOR THE CLYSTER.

Take — S enna, one ounce ; boil it in three pints of water for

SECTION VII, ten minutes, then strain it off, and dissolve in it one handful of common salt.

Three ounces of Epsom salts ;

Half a pound of treacle ;

Half a pint of sweet oil ;

Mix them well together, and apply them as directed in the yth page.

But if the clyster should not cure in one hour, give two ounces of restorative balsam, in one pint of warm ale.

Colds are the effects of an obstructed perspiration, by an immoderate exposure to the weather; m general they proceed from drinking cold water after violent exercise, or by going into rivers or ponds when overheated. Colds are the source of a number of disorders, such as fevers, coughs., the farcy, glanders. &c. &c.

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After a horse has taken cold, he is seized with a cough, heaviness, and dulness, which affect him more or less according to its severity ; his eyes are moist and watery, the kernels about his ears and under the jaws swell; his nose gleets, and he rattles in breathing. When the cold is violent he will be feverish, and lose his appetite.

In the cure of colds of every description, the first attempt should be to remove the cause, by giving to the animal warm cordials, which acting as a stimulant on the stomach and intestines, will give fresh motion to these parts, and will enable nature to resume her former course.

Take — E ight ounces of gum storax ;

Ten ounces of gum Benjamin;

Six ounces of balsam Peru ;

Four ounces of balsam Tolu;

Four ounces of gum myrrh ;

Two ounces of balsam of gilead ;

Four ounces of flowers of St. John’s-wort;

One ounce of socotrine aloes ;

Two ounces of dragon’s blood ; , A

Four ounces of gum thus;

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One gallon of spirits of wine, rectified;

First bruise the ingredients, then mix them with the spirits, and digest in a gentle heat for fourteen days shaking them well twice a day ; then decant it.

The virtues of this balsam are expressed in various parts of this work. Take one ounce of this balsam, and one pint of warm ale, and give it to the horse every night and morning till well.

Take Aniseeds, caroway -seed, grains of Paradise, long pepper, cummin-seeds, diapente, of each two ounces ; powder the seeds.

Mix them together for one drink, and put it in a pitcher, with four ounces of treacle, then pout one quart of boiling ale upon the whole, cover them down till new milk warm, and then give the drink.

By this method the whole virtue of the seed will be retained, which chiefly consists in the essential oil ; this drink may be given every day, let him eat nothing for two hours after the drink, then give him a mash of scalded bran and oats. Clothe your horse, and keep him warm let him be walked out in the middle of the day.

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The Dry Cough.

This is a convulsive motion of the muscles of the thorax and abdomen ; it is generally occasioned by cold, and a stoppage of perspiration'- If the horse appears healthful, can do his work, and eat his food, there is no great danger; and in all probability the balsam drink, (No. 1.) will cure in four or five times taking. If the cough be of long standing, with a wheezing and rattling in the nose and throat, he will be in danger of breaking his wind ; if so, give the drink (No. 3.) every night, and the drink (No. 1.) every morning; let the horse eat nothing for two hours after he has taken it, then give him a a mash of scalded bran and oats, and warm water.