A treatise on the horse : its diseases, lameness, and improvement : in which is laid down the proper method of shoeing the different kinds of feet ... / by William Osmer.

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1830
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    Chap. IV.] RECIPE FOR WORMS. escape by some law of nature unknown to us, horses would die much more frequently than they do with the ravages of these insects. Having said so much concerning those enemies of condition in the horse, come we now to the means of Cure. Take of new milk one quart, honey half a pound, mix and give the horse this in a morning; let him fast after it an hour and a half, then give him a pint of strong brine, (i.e. salt and water,) more or less, according to the size and strength of your horse, fasting after that, another hour. Repeat this treatment three or four successive mornings ; this destroys the worms, and leaves no appearance but of their skins, or shells, which are brought away with the excrement. This treatment, with opened bowels, kills worms of all sorts and sizes. The farcy is another of those disorders that arise from vitiated blood; and when caught bv infection, as it may be by licking the matter from other horses, the same effect will be produced. When the skin breaks, and buds of sprouting fungous flesh appear on any part, such are to be touched with a rag dipped in corrosive spirit of sail, (i. e. muriatic acid,) in strong spirit of nitre, aqua forlis, or in any other such medicine. When swellings fall on any part, which is no uncommon symptom in this disorder, a poultice made with the emollient fomentation thickened with oatmeal, is to be applied thereto twice a day. Scurfy eruptions. With respect to ma- il