The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, with numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc. : perfumery and cosmetics; beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments : trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley.

Beasley, Henry

Date:: 1871

Credit: The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, with numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc. : perfumery and cosmetics; beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments : trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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VETERINARY FORMULARY. Witm tax 3axm. BALL AND BALL MASSES. The roots, seeds, and other dry substances are to be reduced to powder; and it is of importance that the aromatic seeds, especially, should have been recently powdered. The drugs should be of good quality. It is hoped that the trash sold as horse-powders will not much longer be known in estab- lishments which have any pretension to respectability. After this general notice it will be unnecessary to occupy the space by repeating the words powdered, freshly powdered, genuine, &c. Balls should not be too hard, but merely stiff enough to retain their form, and should be wrapped in soft paper. l_Mode of administering Balls.—The horse should be backed into the stall, the tongue drawn gently out with the left hand on the off side of the mouth, and then fixed by press- ing the fingers against the side of the lower jaw. The ball being now taken between the tips of the fingers of the right hand, must be passed rapidly up the mouth, as near the palate as possible, until it reach the root of the tongue; it must then be delivered with a slight jerk, so that the hand being immediately withdrawn, and the tongue liberated, the ball may be forced through the pharynx into the oesopha- gus. A slight tap under the chin may then be given, or a draught of water to assist in carrying it down.] COMMON MASS, as a basis for balls in general.' Mix with the hand equal weights of linseed meal and treacle, and add a little palm oil.—Cherry.

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