Part 39 (2/2)

_Lubricating and healing Poultice._

Powdered marshmallow roots, } Marshmallow leaves, } equal parts.

Moisten with boiling water, and apply.

_Use._--In ragged cuts, wounds, and bruises.

_Stimulating Poultice._

Indian meal, } Slippery elm, } equal parts.

Mix them together, and add sufficient boiling water to moisten the ma.s.s.

Spread it on a cloth, and sprinkle a small quant.i.ty of powdered cayenne on its surface.

_Use._--To stimulate ill-conditioned ulcers to healthy action. Where there is danger of putrescence, add a small quant.i.ty of powdered charcoal.

_Poultice for Bruises._

Nothing makes so good a poultice for recent bruises as boiled carrots or marshmallows.

_Poultice to promote Suppuration._

Indian meal, a sufficient quant.i.ty.

Linseed, a handful.

Cayenne, 1 tea-spoonful.

To be moistened with boiling vinegar, and applied at the usual temperature.

STYPTICS, TO ARREST BLEEDING.

Witch hazel, (winter bloom,) bark or leaves, 2 ounces.

Make a decoction with the smallest possible quant.i.ty of water, and if the bleeding is from the nose, throw it up by means of a syringe; if from the stomach, lungs, or bowels, add more water, and let the animal drink it, and give some by injection.

_Styptic to arrest external Bleeding._

Wet a piece of lint with tincture of muriate of iron, and bind it on the part.

There are various other styptics, such as alum water, strong tincture of nutgalls, bloodroot, common salt, fine flour, &c.

ABSORBENTS.

_Remarks._--Absorbents are composed of materials partaking of an alkaline character, and are used for the purpose of neutralizing acid matter. The formation of an acid in the stomach arises from some derangement of the digestive organs, sometimes brought on by the improper quant.i.ty or quality of the food. It is useless, therefore, to give absorbents, with a view of neutralizing acid, unless the former are combined with tonics, or agents that are capable of restoring the stomach to a healthy state. This morbid state of the stomach is recognized in oxen by a disposition to eat all kinds of trash that comes in their way, such as dirt, litter, &c. They are frequently licking themselves, and often swallow a great deal of hair, which is formed into b.a.l.l.s in the stomach, and occasions serious irritation. Calves, when fattening, are often fed so injudiciously, that the stomach is incapable of reducing the food to chyme and chyle: the consequence is, that a large amount of carbonic acid gas is evolved. Many calves and lambs die from this cause.

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