Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets: Or, A Collection of Above 500 Useful Receipts on a Variety of SubjectsYoung, Daniel
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Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets: Or, A Collection of Above 500 Useful Receipts on a Variety of Subjects
Young, Daniel
Formulas, recipes, etc.; Science -- Methodology
364. GENERAL LINIMENT
Take of turpentine, 1/2 pint; linseed oil, 1/2 pint; aqua-ammonia,
4 oz.; tincture of iodine, 1 oz.; shake all well together. This is
used for different things spoken of in the different receipts, sores
or swellings, sprains, &c.
365. LIQUID BLISTER
Take of alcohol, 1 pint; turpentine, 1/2 pint; aqua-ammonia, 4 oz.;
oil of origanum, 1 oz.; mix, apply this as spoken of, every three
hours until it blisters.
366. TO CURE CORNS
Take of the shoe, cut out the corns, and drop in a few drops of
muriatic acid, then make the shoes so they will not bear on the part
affected. Apply the hoof liquid to the hoof to remove the fever.
This is a sure cure for corns in horses.
367. WATER FARCY, OR DROPSY
This is a swelling along under the chest, and forward to the breast;
bleed, rowel in the breast and along the swelling, six inches apart,
apply the general liniment to the swelling, move the rowels every
day, let them stay in until the swelling goes down. Give soft food,
mashes, with the cleansing powder in them.
368. CLEANSING POWDER
This is to be used when the blood is out of order. It is good to
restore lost appetite, good for yellow water, whenever it is to be
used it is spoken of in the receipts. Take of good ginger 1 lb.,
powdered gentian 4 oz., crude antimony 1/2 oz., mix well together.
Give one large spoonful every day in wet food. This is perfectly
safe.
369. POLL EVIL
Cure before it breaks, run a rowel or seaton from the lower part
of the top through the centre of the enlargement, then make the
following lotion. Take of sal-ammoniac 2 oz., spirts of turpentine
1/2 a pint, linseed oil 4 oz., and spirits of tar 4 oz., shake well,
and apply it all over the swelling every other day. Let the seaton
stay in until all the swelling is gone down, move it every day, and
when all is gone throw it out. Bleed when you first open it, and
keep the part clean.
370. GLANDERS
Bleed copiously, put a rowel or seaton of polk root between the jaw
and breast, put tar thoroughly up the nostrils twice a day. This is
the best remedy ever in use.
371. FRESH WOUNDS
If there is an artery cut, tie it if possible; if not possible, or
if there is much bleeding without the separation of an artery, apply
the following wash: nitrate of silver 4 grains, soft water 1 oz.,
wet the wound with this, then draw the edges together by stitches
one inch apart, then wash clean, and if any swelling in twenty-four
hours, bleed and apply the blue ointment, or any of the liniments
spoken of, Keep the bowels open.
372. THE LIVER
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