. A treatise on the horse and his diseases : illustrated, containing an "Index of diseases," which gives the symptoms, cause, and the best treatment of each, a table giving all the principal drugs ..., a table with an engraving of the horse's teeth at different ages ..., a valuable collection of receipts, and much other valuable information. oiling water, and compel the animal toinhale the steam for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time; repeat threetimes a day. Apply a strong mustard paste to the throat, and place a warmpoultice over the paste. Feed warm mashes and boiled vegetables; keepthe st
. A treatise on the horse and his diseases : illustrated, containing an "Index of diseases," which gives the symptoms, cause, and the best treatment of each, a table giving all the principal drugs ..., a table with an engraving of the horse's teeth at different ages ..., a valuable collection of receipts, and much other valuable information. oiling water, and compel the animal toinhale the steam for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time; repeat threetimes a day. Apply a strong mustard paste to the throat, and place a warmpoultice over the paste. Feed warm mashes and boiled vegetables; keepthe stable comfortably warm and the air pure. Give the following pow-ders once a day: Powdered Peruvian bark, 2 ounces; powdered gentian, 1ounce; powdered copperas, 1 ounce. Mix, and divide into eight powders. Thrush. Take white vitriol, 2 ounces; soft water, 8 ounces. Mix, and apply tothe diseased surface, after the ragged parts have been cut away and thor-oughly cleansed. Pack the cavities with cotton batting, so as to keep outall dirt. For Ringworm. Apply mercurial ointment three or four times a ^eek For Brittle and Contracted Hoofs. Take of castor oil, Barbadoes tar and soft soap, equal parts of each;meit all together and stir while cooling, and apply a little to the hoof three orfour times a week. TO HOESE OAVNEES. 61 TO HOESE All must admit that we live in an age of improvements, and that we enjoywhat our forefathers never even dreamed of-in the fast and easy transporta-tion rapid communication from continent to continent, and the use of thehundreds of labor-saving machines; and yet before or even when these greatdiscoveries were first made known to the public, how many there were (likeThomas) who doubted. But time will prove all things, and so it has beenwith all these inventions which were once said to be impossibilities, lor nowwe know them to be of the great value which their originators claimed tor ^ Tn the year 1875 it was claimed by the publisher of this book, t
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