The gentleman's new pocket farrier : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal, the horse ..to which is added A Prize essay on mules ..Also, an addenda, containing Annals of the turf, American stud book, rules for training, racing, &c. . and cow dung, each about2 pounds. Tar, half a pound. 167. Wash for coring out, de-stroying fungus, or proud fesh,^c. ^c. Lunar caustic one drachm, Water, 2 ounces. 168. Wash for sublimate, 2 drachms,Spirit of wine or brandy, 1 of tobacco,Do. of white helebore, of each 1pint THE VETERINARY PHARMACOPEIA. 255 Dis
The gentleman's new pocket farrier : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal, the horse ..to which is added A Prize essay on mules ..Also, an addenda, containing Annals of the turf, American stud book, rules for training, racing, &c. . and cow dung, each about2 pounds. Tar, half a pound. 167. Wash for coring out, de-stroying fungus, or proud fesh,^c. ^c. Lunar caustic one drachm, Water, 2 ounces. 168. Wash for sublimate, 2 drachms,Spirit of wine or brandy, 1 of tobacco,Do. of white helebore, of each 1pint THE VETERINARY PHARMACOPEIA. 255 Dissolve the mercury in thespirit, and then add the decoc-tions. 169. Ointments for cerate, two vitriol powdered, half a , 4 ounces. 170. For cerate, two ounces,White vitriol, 1 drachm,Yellow basilicon, 5 ounces. 171. For vivum, 8 ounces,Arsenic in powder, 2 drachms,Mercurial ointment, 2 ounces,Turpentine, 2 ounces,Lard, 8 ounces. Mix, and dress with everymorning. 172. For Scab or Shab in Sheep,Mallenders and Sellenders inHorses, and foul blotches anderuptions in cattle in general. Camphor, 1 drachm. Sugar of lead, half a drachm, Mercurial ointment 1 ounce. m- OF THE DISEASES OF. HORNED CATTLE. 173. Cattle are subject to some very dangerous dis^eases, but as their life is less artificial, and their struc-ture less complex, they are not liable to the variety ofahments which affect the horse. The general pathologyof the horse and ox being little different, the funda-mental rules for veterinary practice, and the requisitemedicines, when not particularized, will be found in theVeterinary Pharmacopoeia, already given. (126.) 174. Mild fever, pantas or pantasia. Cattle sometimes appearaffected with heat, redness of the nostrils and eyelids ; they refusefood, are dull, evacuate and stale with difficulty ; and the urine ishigh coloured. These symptoms are often aggravated every otherday, giving it the appearance o
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