This may be relied on as a certain and safe remedy for botts in horses.  When the horse is attacked, pound some common glass very fine, sift it through a fine piece of muslin, take a tablespoonful, put it inside a ball of dough, (not mixed with the dough,) then put it down the horse’s throat, and in from two to five minutes the horse will get up and feel and will be well.  The moment the glass touches the botts though they may have eaten their way into the coats of the stomach, so that but a small portion is exposed, they will let go their hold, will pucker up and be driven off by the bowels.  This remedy is perfectly safe, and is the only certain cure for botts under the sun.  Try it.

332.  Ring bone and spavin

Take of sweet oil, 4 oz.; spirits of turpentine, 2 ozs.; oil if stone, 1/2 oz.  Mix and apply three times a day.  If the horse is over four years old, or in any case where there is not sufficient, in addition to it, you will fit a bar of lead just above it, wiring the ends together, so it constantly wears upon the enlargement, and the two together, will cure nine cases out of every ten in six weeks.

333.  Poll evil and fistula

Take 1 lb. common potash dissolved in 1/2 pint of water.  Add 1/2 oz. extract of belladona and 1 oz. gum-arabic dissolved in a little water; work all into a paste with wheat flour, and box or bottle up tight.  In applying this, the place should be well cleansed with soap-suds, (castile soap is best) then tallow should be applied all around by the paste dissolving and running over it.  Now this paste must be pressed to the bottom of all the orifices; if very deep it must be made sufficiently thin to inject by means of a small syringe, and repeated once in two days, until the callous pipes, and hard fibrous base around the poll evil, or fistula, is completely destroyed.  Sometimes one application has cured cases of this kind, but it will generally require two or three.  If the horse cannot be kept up, you will put a piece of oiled cloth over the place.  The advantage of this caustic over all others is that less pain and inflammation is induced.  The sores may be cured by the following or Sloan’s ointment:  ceder oil is to be applied to the tendons, to prevent them stiffening, in pole evil, or other cases.

334.  DeGRAY, or Sloan’s horse ointment

Take of rosin 4 oz., lard 8 oz., honey 2 oz., mix and melt slowly, gently bring it to a boil, and as it begins to boil slowly, add a little less than a pint of spirits of turpentine, stirring all the time it is being added, then remove from the stove, and stir till cool.  This is an extraordinary ointment for bruses in flesh or hoof, broken knees, galled backs, bites, cracked heels, &c. or when a horse is gelded, to heal and keep away flies.

335.  Nerve and bone liniment

Take of beef’s gall 1 quart, alcohol 1 pint, volatile liniment 1 lb., spirits of turpentine 1 lb., oil of origanum 4 oz., aqua ammonia 4 oz., tincture of cayenne 1/2 pint, oil of amber 3 oz., tincture of spanish fly 6 oz., mix and shake well.  Uses too well known to need description.