Gardening and Animals

1860

Cure for Cholic in Horses

Spirits of turpentine 3 oz.; laudanum, 1 oz.: mix, and give all for a dose, by putting it into a bottle with 1-2 pt. of warm water, which prevents injury to the throat. If relief is not obtained in one hour, repeat the dose, adding 1-2 oz. of the best powdered aloes well dissolved together, and have no uneasiness about the result.
Symptoms.-The horse often lies down and suddenly rises again
with a spring; strikes his belly with his hind feet, stamps with
his fore feet, and refuses every kind of food, &c; I suppose there is no medicine in use, for cholic, either in man or horse, equal to this mixture.

Dose-For persons a dose would be from 1 to 2 teaspoons full- children or weak persons, less, according to the urgency of the
symptoms, to be taken in warm water or warm tea. See Mr.
Higgins' certificate. I have found others using it, and in every
case, they thought it the best preparation, for that purpose, in
the world.