The average weight of a horse is 1200 pounds; the average weight of a man is 145 pounds. Give a horse medicine in this manner. If it takes so much to act as a medicine on a man, and a horse weighing so much more, it will take so much more to affect him. As follows: If it takes 4 ounces of whisky to make a man drunk that weighs one hundred pounds, it will take 12 times 4, which is 48 ounces, to make a horse the same way. This is the rule by which man should be governed in giving a horse medicine. There are exceptions to all rules. A horse should never be given medicine through the nose, for his windpipe is not sheltered like that of man. It can be given by getting his head up and pouring it down his throat. How would you like to take medicine through your nose into your stomach? Remember a horse has feeling. When a horse is poisoned, and you don't know what with, give him a dozen raw eggs, with a quart of sweet milk, four ounces of magnesia, and a pint of melted lard, all mixed together. This will answer the demands of nearly every case. In all cases of general inflammation keep the horse in a place where the air is 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Give him water and wheat bran with a due portion of salt, and don't drug him. Under this treatment he has a good chance to get well, whereas, if you drug him, he will, ninety times out of a hundred, die. For all sprains, bruises and curbs, use the liniment that I have told you of before for such troubles. The secret of a doctor's success in treating human sufferers is in his giving something that will do no harm if it fails to do good. Good feed, good care, a warm stable kept clean, a good curry comb well used, and plenty of pure water, is the best doctor a horse ever had. When a horse is bothered with his kidneys, in order to get them restored, the horse should be given salt and denied water till he becomes very thirsty, then put from three to four ounces of nitre into two gallons of water, close his nostrils with your thumb and fingers and he will drink it all before he will taste the nitre, and in one hour he will be relieved. I have seen this done in a number of cases, with the best of results.

Lice can be easily driven from horses with equal parts of melted lard and warm sweet milk; rubbed on where they are. It will kill the lice and not hurt the horse or cause him to shed his hair.

To make a horse shed give him three eggs a day, a little salt and wood ashes. You won't have to coax him to eat them. Try it, and you will find he will take the dose with a relish, and become slick as a mole, and nicker for more of the same kind.

To purify the horse's blood I will give you a new plan. I got it from an old Indian horse doctor, who was noted for his success. Take four kinds of pulverized roots, namely, Sarsaparilla, Burdock, Stillingia and Yellow Root. Mix in equal parts and give them a portion sprinkled and mixed with chopped feed or bran as large as a hen's egg twice a day. Keep the horses skin clean and you will soon find his blood becomes pure, and his skin healthy, and hair slick and glossy. There are a great many remedies recommended for horses, but a horse needs little medicine if he is properly cared for, his stable kept clean, himself kept out of the storm. Never let mud remain after drying, give him plenty of good and pure water, and good feed, and when you leave them standing hitched of a cold winter night, always blanket them. By conforming to the above you will have healthy horses like the Indians, and will have no need of resorting to powerful medicines and wicked blood letting.