Howells's Farriery Author:John Howells Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: imputed to a large tract of bo , and the time the physic is in the b els, is seldom less than twenty-four lours. If the above directions for preparii ' .... more »;., obsreved, there will seldom any danger RECIPE for the Purge. Take eight dreams of the best Bar- badoes aloes; one dram of jalap; two trams of ginger; half an ounce of cream of tarter; four drams of casteel soap ; four drams ofdiapente: all mixed together injine powder, made into a ball with sufficient quantity ofsirop of buckthorn. ANOTHER, Four ounces of lenitive elixir, three mncts of epsom salts; one ounce of ream of farter; four drams of succotrinc aloes, made up into a ball, either give it in a ball or dissolve it in thin gruel physic, must always be given in the morning fasting, give him a mash at twelve o clock, and a little hay before him at night, give him another mash and warm water, the next day give him plenty of water and mashes as he can make use of, be sure to clothe him up 'warm. If a horse should over purge, give him one ounce of diacordium, mi- thridate half an ounce, one ounce of dulcified spirits of nitre, and dissolve the ingredients in a piAt of gruel, and give it the horse luke warm. If you intend to give mercurial physic to your horse, take a dram and a half of colomel, diapente half an ounce; make it into a ball with honey or conserve of roses, give it at night, and the purging ball next morning in two. chapter{Section 4 SECTION II. The windy COLK windy colic is known by the -- following remarks. The horse, often lies eknvn, and suddenly v again with a spring; strikes liis belly with his hind feet, stamps with his fore feet, and refuses every kind1 of food. When this dosorder is violent, it throws his body into convulsive motions : his eyes are turned up, and ...« less