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CLEANLY stables, dry sweet straw for litter, often changed, sweet clear water, the rack staves and trough annointed with tar sulphur and assafoetida mixed; a free use of salt slightly mixed with sulphur. Should one of the cattle be infected, remove him from the rest. Fumigate the stable with vinegar poured on hot stones, and rub the noses of the sound with the above mixture, and in case of death bury the animal deep with the hide on.

MIX a pint and a half of wine which has stood several days exposed to the air, with two ounces of hens' dung; give it to the beast every evening for four times, or more if needful.

This is a plain simple remedy, but it possesses great powers. These ingredients abound in a volatile salt, which will have great effects in this disorder as is abundantly proved by experiment.

TAKE of water, or water saturated with lime, about twelve parts, in which, assisted by heat when necessary, infuse from two to six parts of what is usually called sub-carbonate of potash, or sub-carbonate of soda, or both, according to the purposes for which the said composition is intended. To this alkaline liquor when hot, in the copper or otherwise, add from four to seven or more parts of common soap, sliced or macerated, or in any form best calculated to incorporate it with the mass, and afford a compound of the consistence of