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 of a sheep's suffering any injury from the application. In a few days the blotches dry up, the itching ceases, and the animal is completely cured. We should, however, recommend, on using this ointment, that the animal should be housed for a few days from the weather should it prove stormy or damp, and not permitted to get wet, a caution requisite in all cases where mercury is used.

—Remedy for.

THE following remedy has been tried with success in England and much recommended in France.—Oil of turpentine, two gross; honey, 4 ounces. Divide it into three doses, and take one in the morning, one at noon, and one at night.

Doubtless this would be much aided by a strong cathartic, abstinence, and friction externally with oil of turpentine.

The gross is two penny weights, six grains troy.

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SCRATCHES is a disease in horses, sometimes called Malanders. It is caused by corrupt blood, over hard labour, &c. and appears in chops or cracks on the inside of the fore legs against the knee, discharging a red sharp humour.

To cure this disease wash the cracks with warm soap suds or old urine; then rub them twice a day with an ointment of hog's lard, mixed with two drachms of sublimate mercury. Or apply a poultice of the roots of marsh mallows and flax seed, softened with linseed oil, tying it on with a roller. Continue that till the