These are strongly condemned by modern veterinary writers; those drenches, at least, which contain cantharides.

1. Aniseed, grains of paradise,bay berries, of each 1 oz.; cantharides in fine powder 20 to 30 grs.; to be given in a quart of milk.

2. Black hellebore 1/2 oz., capsicum 2 drs., birthwort 1/2 oz., bay berries 1 oz., cantharides 20 grs.; in a quart of warm ale. - Downing.

3. A quart of milk from a cow in season. - Clater.

4. Powdered cantharides 20 grs., aniseed 2 oz., black hellebore 1/2 oz.; in ale, gruel, or milk. - Peck.

Drying Drenches, For Drying A Cow's Milk

Bleed the night before, and give the drink, warm, in the morning. The bleeding is questionable treatment.

1. Boil 6 drs. of alum in milk, and strain. - White.

2. Alum 6 ., bole 2 ., cream of tartar or red tartar 1 ; mix. Give from 6 to 9 oz., in stale beer; or in gruel with 1/2 pint of vinegar.

3. Roche or common alum 4 oz., dragon's blood 1/2 oz., turmeric 1 oz., in a pint of rennet water, and a pint of vinegar. - DOWNING. [These large doses of alum, though often given, are not regarded as necessary or proper by modern veterinary writers.]

Drench For The Bites Of Vipers

Olive oil 2 pints, spirits of hartshorn 1 oz.; mix.

Alum Whey

Boil 1/2 oz. of alum in 2 quarts of milk for ten minutes, and strain.

Anodyne Carminative Tincture; And Tincture Of Pimento

See Medicines foe Horses (Tinctures).