This section is from the book "The Druggist's General Receipt Book", by Henry Beasley. Also available from Amazon: The druggist's general receipt book.
1. Juniper berries 6 oz., gentian 1 oz.; boil in 3 gallons of water for a quarter of an hour, strain, and add common salt 4
., powdered ginger 4 oz., tartarized iron 2 oz.; stir, and let it stand till cool. Put it into wine-bottles filled two thirds full, and add to each, 1 1/2 oz. oil of turpentine and 1/2 oz. sweet spirit of nitre. Give a table-spoonful night and morning, shaking the bottle before pouring it out.
2. Common salt 8 oz., gentian powder 8 oz., ginger 1 oz., tincture of calumba 4 oz., water to make up a quart. - Clater. See the next.
3. To a quart of No 2, add spirit of turpentine 3 oz.; shake well together, and give 2 tablespoonfuls at night, before the night's food is given, and a tablespoonful of No. 2 every morning.
Powders for the same. - A French recipe. 1. Dry bran 10
salt 1/2
., aromatic herbs (as thyme, sage, juniper, rosemary, etc.) cut small, 6 oz., green anise and coriander, of each 5 oz.; mix, and give morning and night every third day. The above quantity is for thirty sheep.
2. Juniper berries 4 oz., bay berries 1 oz., grains of paradise 1/4 oz., bay salt 1 1/2
loaf sugar 1/2
; powder all together, and keep the powder in a bottle for use. Give the sheep dry and sweet hay, sprinkled with the powder. - Lawrence.
 
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