Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . 296 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK FEET OF THE HORSE AND THEIR DISEASES. 297 be hot for each one, and with a little mustard in it. Bathe the legs withit as high as the knees and hocks. Leave them in as long as the waterremains hot; then take them out and put each foot into a linseed poultice,hot and sof
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . 296 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK FEET OF THE HORSE AND THEIR DISEASES. 297 be hot for each one, and with a little mustard in it. Bathe the legs withit as high as the knees and hocks. Leave them in as long as the waterremains hot; then take them out and put each foot into a linseed poultice,hot and soft, and bandage the legs with flannel. Repeat this morningand night for two or three weeks, or until the soreness is nearly all gonefrom the feet. Then stand him in a clay puddle, daytimes, and take himout of nights, and continue this as long as there is any stiffness. It willneed to be continued, in most cases, for a month or more. Leave the shoesoff till he is ready to work again. As soon as the feet are well put intopoultices, begin on the following mixture : No 4. 1 Ounce sweet spirits of aitie, 1 Dractim tr. aconite root,1 Ounce potash nitrate,%, Pint water,Mix. Give a tablespoonful every two hours, until the fever abates and thepatient becomes comfortable ; then drop off to three times a day. Con-tinue this for abou
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