Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... of cedar, one drachm; oil of pennyroyal, one drachm. Mix, and apply, as with the first. Another, is to wash with strong carbolic sc ap, and dry without wiping. water proofing for leather boots--don'T look for any other. Boiled linseed oil with a very little lamp black; apply a coat each morning for several days, and after, as often as is required; this will make leather as near water proof as is possible. dogs. antidote for strychnia poisoning. Camphor gum is all that is necessary. A lump of camphor gum, the size of the end of your thumb, shoved down the dog's throat will cure him even after he has had spasms. This is reliable. cure for distemper. Give three drops of the tincture of aconite root every hour, for from six to ten hours. After the fever is clearly reduced, give three quinine pills, of three grains each, giving one every two hours, until the pills are all taken. If the dog's bowels are free, this is all that is necessary. The best way to give the aconite is, drop three drops on a small piece of raw meat, if the dog will eat, if not, drop it on his tongue, and be careful to give him not more than three drops, for this remedy is a very active poison, and an overdose would speedily prove fatal. to clear A dog kennel from fleas. Sprinkle the straw, or bedding with dilute carbolic acid, and a good way to kill them on a dog is, take one part of c