Part 16 (2/2)

Boiling water sufficient to soften the ma.s.s.

_Another_.

Powdered lobelia, } Slippery elm, } equal parts.

Pond lily, bruised, }

Mix with boiling water. Put the ingredients into a bag, and secure it above the fetlock.

Give the animal the following at a dose:--

Flowers of sulphur, half an ounce.

Powdered sa.s.safras bark, 1 ounce.

Burdock, (any part of the plant,) 2 ounces.

The above to be steeped in one quart of boiling water. When cool, strain. All that is now needed is to keep the part cleansed, and at rest. If a fetid smell still remains, wet the cleft, morning and evening, with

Chloride of soda, 1 ounce.

Water, 6 ounces.

Mix.

_Another._

Pyroligneous acid, 2 ounces.

Water, a pint.

Mix.

_Another._

Common salt, 1 table-spoonful.

Vinegar, a wine-gla.s.s.

Water, 1 quart.

Whenever any fungous excrescence makes its appearance between the claws, apply powdered bloodroot or burnt alum.

RED WATER.

This affection takes its name from the high color of the urine. It is not, strictly speaking, a disease, but only a symptom of derangement, caused by high feeding or the suppression of some natural discharge. If, for example, the skin be obstructed, then the insensible perspiration and excrement.i.tious matter, which should pa.s.s through this great outlet, find some other mode of egress; either the lungs of kidneys have to perform the extra work. If the lot falls on the latter, and they are not in a physiological state, they give evidence of febrile or inflammatory action (caused by the irritating, acrid character of their secretion) in the form of high-colored urine. In all cases of derangement in the digestive apparatus, liver included, both in man and oxen, the urine is generally high colored; and the use of diuretic medicines is objectionable, for, at best, it would only be treating symptoms. We lay it down as a fundamental principle, that those who treat symptoms alone never cure disease, for the animal often dies a victim to the treatment, instead of the malady.

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