The Scientific American cyclopedia of formulas : partly based upon the twenty-eighth edition of Scientific American cyclopedia of receipts, notes and queries 15,000 formulas / edited by Albert A. Hopkins.
- Albert A. Hopkins
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Scientific American cyclopedia of formulas : partly based upon the twenty-eighth edition of Scientific American cyclopedia of receipts, notes and queries 15,000 formulas / edited by Albert A. Hopkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![three months. All dead animals should be burned or buried deeply in places where hogs will not graze for a year. Diseased hogs should not be driven through lanes or other public highways. The healthy hogs should be cared for first and then the diseased, otherwise disease-bearing material may be conveyed to the healthy. Clean the pens, use plenty of air-slacked lime on the floors before using again.” The following formula given by the Bureau of Animal Industry is as effica¬ cious as anything known as a preventive and remedy : 1. —Wood charcoal, 1 lb.; sulphur, 1 lb.; sodium chloride, 2 lb.; sodium hypo¬ sulphite, 2 lb.; sodium bicarbonate, 2 lb.; sodium sulphate, 1 lb.; antimony sulphide, 1 lb. Give a tablespoonful once a day to a 150-pound hog. Give in sloppy feeds, as bran, middlings, crushed oats, etc. Several other formulas are as follows: 2. —Iron carbonate, 5 parts; sodium chloride, 5 parts; potassium carbonate, 5 parts; sulphur, 5 parts; calcium oxide, 5 parts; magnesium carbonate, 10 parts; soap, 10 parts; chalk, 60 parts; carbolic acid, 5 parts. Dose: Give % of an ounce of the mixture at each feed, well mixed with food. The two following formulas are as¬ cribed to Dr. Haubner, Dean of the Dresden Veterinary College: 3. —Calcium phosphate, precipitated, 16 parts; chalk, 12 parts; magnesium car¬ bonate, 4 parts; capsicum, 1 part. 4. —Sodium bicarbonate, 2 parts; gen¬ tian root, 2 parts; ginger, 3 parts; sodi¬ um nitrate, 1 part; chalk, 8 parts. As a prophylactic, give 1 to 2 teaspoonfuls twice a day; as a cure, give 1 tablespoon¬ ful three or four times a day. 5. —Potassium nitrate, 4 oz.; black an¬ timony, 4 oz.; gentian, in powder, 4 oz.; rosin, 8 oz.; turmeric, 8 oz.; madder, 8 oz.; sublimed sulphur, 8 oz. Horses. Blind Staggers (White).—Epsom salt, 8 oz.; water, 24 oz. Dissolve. Give as a drench. Bots (Houck).—Rosin, 2 oz.; saltpe¬ ter, 1 oz.; gentian, 2 oz.; copperas, 2 oz.; fenugreek, 4 oz. Mix. Tablespoonful at night. Colic.—Horses are liable to rapid in¬ flammation of the bowels, which is very often mistaken by the horse-keeper for colic and treated for such, when the ser¬ vices of a veterinary doctor are vitally important. Colic primarily comes from indigestion or constipation or both. The first thing to do is to relieve the pain, the next to cause an evacuation of the bow¬ els. For the pain, give the following as a drink in a quart of hot water: 1. —Tincture of opium, 1 oz.;-tincture of ginger, 1 oz.; sweet spirit of niter, 1 oz.; chloroform, 1 oz. This is a full dose for a large horse. For a small horse or a slight attack less may be given. The best purgative to use in colic is a pint of castor oil or a quart of linseed oil. A dram of oil of turpentine should be given also. 2. —Another.—Tincture of opium, 1 oz. ; ol. terebinth, % oz. ; spirit ether nit., 2 oz.; ol. lini., 8 oz. Mix. Shake well before giving, and if relief is not pro¬ cured in 30 minutes and the horse is shivering and has cold sweats, call a veterinary at once. In case of simple colic this drink will give quick relief; it should be followed by a warm bran mash one hour after. Condition Powder.—Gentian root, ani¬ seed, caraway seeds, linseed, coriander seeds, rosin, saltpeter, licorice root, fenu¬ greek, of each 1 lb. To the above ingre¬ dients, all in fine powder, add oil of cloves 2 drams and mix well in a large mortar; it is not necessary to sieve, if the rosin and saltpeter are finely powdered before mixing. One or two tablespoonfuls mixed well with the food every night and morning for a week or two, then once a day. For carriage horses, a warm bran, bar¬ ley or oatmeal mash occasionally, works wonders in conjunction with the condition powders. Distemper (Millican). — Arsenic, 1 dram; sodium bicarbonate, 1 oz.; iron iodide, 4 drams; fenugreek, 2 oz.; ginger, 2 oz.; elecampane, 1 oz. Make into 12 powders. One at night. Epizooty—Pinkeye (Bell). — Sublimed sulphur, 4 drams; Epsom salt, 1 oz.; charcoal, 4 drams ; licorice extract, 1 oz.; elecampane, 1 oz.; fenugreek, 1% oz.; gentian, 4 drams; aniseed, 2 drams ; gin¬ ger, 2 drams; saltpeter, 4 drams ; rosin, 2 drams; copperas, 2 drams; black sul¬ phide antimony, 6 drams. Mix. Table¬ spoonful three times daily. Farcy (Dodd).—Saltpeter, 2 oz.; ele¬ campane, 1 oz.; sodium sulphite, 4 drams ; black sulphite antimony, 1 oz. Mix. Tablespoonful twice a day. Feed, Comparative Value of.—The comparative value of horse feed is found by experiment to be as follows: 100 lb. of good hay is equal in value to 59 lb. of oats, 57 lb. of corn, 275 lb. of carrots, 54 [53]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31361523_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
