The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 67 pages of information about The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses.

The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 67 pages of information about The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses.

CURES, &C.

Cure for the Founder.—­Let 1-1/2 gallons of blood from the neck vein, make frequent applications of hot water to his forelegs; after which, bathe them in wet cloths, then give one quart Linseed Oil.  The horse will be ready for service the next day.

Botts.—­Mix one pint honey with one quart sweet milk, give as a drench, one hour after, dissolve 1 oz. pulverized Coperas in a pint of water, use likewise, then give one quart of Linseed Oil.  Cure effectual.

Colic.—­After bleeding copiously in the mouth, take a half pound of raw cotton, wrap it around a coal of fire in such a way as to exclude the air; when it begins to smoke, hold it under the horse’s nose until he becomes easy.  Cure certain in ten minutes.

Distemper.—­Take 1-1/2 gallons blood from the neck vein, then give a dose of Sassafras Oil, 1-1/2 ounces is sufficient.  Cure speedy and certain.

Fistula.—­When it makes its appearance, rowel both sides of the shoulder; if it should break, take one ounce of verdigris, 1 ounce oil rosin, 1 ounce copperas, pulverize and mix together.  Use it as a salve.

RECEIPT FOR BONE SPAVIN OR RING-BONE.

Take a table-spoonful of corrosive sublimate; quicksilver about the size of a bean; 3 or 4 drops of muriatic acid; iodine about the size of a pea, and lard enough to form a paste; grind the iodine and sublimate fine as flour, and put altogether in a cup, mix well, then shear the hair all off the size you want; wash clean with soap-suds, rub dry, then apply the medicine.  Let it stay on five days; if it does not take effect, take it off, mix it over with a little more lard, and add some fresh medicine.  When the lump comes out, wash it clean in soap-suds, then apply a poultice of cow dung, leave it on twelve hours, then apply healing medicine.

TEMPERANCE BEVERAGE.

One quart of water, three pounds of sugar, one teaspoonful of lemon oil, one table-spoonful of flour, with the white of four eggs, well beat up.  Mix the above well together, then divide the syrup, and add four ounces of carbonic soda in one-half, and three ounces of tartaric acid in the other half; then bottle for use.

SARSAPARILLA SYRUP.

One ounce Sarsaparilla, two pounds brown sugar, ten drops wintergreen, and half pint of water.

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