The Farmer's Own Book: A treatise on the numerous diseases of the horse: with an explanation of their symptoms, and the course of treatment to be pursued; also a treatise on the diseases of horned cattleKoogle, J. D.
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The Farmer's Own Book: A treatise on the numerous diseases of the horse: with an explanation of their symptoms, and the course of treatment to be pursued; also a treatise on the diseases of horned cattle
Take 40 grains sulphate of zinc to ½ pint of warm soft water, shake
until well dissolved and cork up tightly. In using pour out about 1 tea
spoonful into a cup and bathe the eyes with it. Never use by dipping
your finger into the bottle, but pour a small quantity out into a vessel
of some kind. This is the best eye water yet introduced and will be
certain to relieve the inflamed eye. Try it and its efficacy will soon
be manifested. Always bathe the eye of an evening, just before going to
bed--if it is used during the day you should keep out of the air. If too
strong add a little water. The cost of this preparation is but 6¼ cents,
and cannot be surpassed.
ESSENCE OF CINNAMON.
Take 1 pint of alcohol, ½ ounce of oil of cinnamon, color with the
tincture of red sanders, and mix as above. This is excellent in diarrhœa,
summer complaints or looseness of the bowels.
CERTAIN CURE FOR FELON.
We have known instances of the most intense suffering, neither rest by
day or sleep at night, in which this process has effected cures. As soon
as it becomes apparent that a felon is making its appearance, which is
known by a constant soreness and pain proceeding from the bone, take
a strong cord of any kind and wrap it about the afflicted part, as
tightly as can be borne; keep it in this condition until the pain can be
endured no longer. Now loose the cords and soon as the pain, caused by
the cording subsides, tighten it again. Continue this for several days
or until the felon is completely blackened and killed.--We have known
several persons who have been afflicted with felons to try this remedy
with success--in fact we have never known it to fail. The cording stops
the circulation and then the sore has nothing to feed upon, when it soon
dies of starvation. We have faith in this remedy, even after a felon has
made considerable progress. If the felon has commenced at the bone the
sooner you have it cut the better; there is no application that will
burst or open the skin that is next to the bone, it should be cut if the
above remedy fails.--_Clipper._
CURE FOR BRONCHITIS.
Croton oil it is said will entirely remove this complaint. A minister
of the gospel who had been laid aside from his pastoral office by the
bronchitis, for three years, has entirely recovered his voice by the
application of croton oil to the surface of the throat, against the organ
affected, one drop daily rubbed over the surface produced a singular but
powerful eruption of the skin, which as it progressed restored his voice
to its full tone and vigor.
RECEIPT FOR HOGS.
That have lost their appetite. Put urine in the slop, or when you can
conveniently, urinate in the trough as you pass along. This is excellent,
but a small quantity of ashes put in their slop cannot be surpassed for
restoring the appetite, and also very good for the kidneys, worms, &c.
Give it a trial and be convinced of its efficacy.
GREASE FOR CARRIAGES, &c.
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