Oil of tar 1 pint, fish oil 2 pints. - Clater.

Charges

The usual method of applying charges is to soften the compound by heat, and apply it with a large spatula to the part, as warm as the animal can comfortably bear it, and while warm, to cover it with cut tow. Charges are used for old sprains of the loins, strains of the back sinews, wind-galls, etc. Cold charges are spread on cloth or leather, and renewed as they become dry.

1. Simple Charges. Pitch 4 oz., turpentine 1 oz. - Gasparin.

2. For Strains of the Loins. Pitch 4 ., turpentine 6 oz., olive oil 4 oz.; melt together. - B. Clark.

3. Burgundy pitch 4 oz., wax 4 oz., yellow resin 4 oz., common turpentine 1 oz.; melt together, and when it begins to thicken, stir in 1 oz. of bole. - White.

4. Burgundy or common pitch 5 oz., tar 6 oz., wax 1 oz.; melt together, and when they are becoming cool, stir in 1/2 dr. of powdered cantharides. - Youatt.

5. Pitch 3 ., tar 1 beeswax 1/2 ; melt together. - Clater.

6. Resin 2 oz., Burgundy pitch 4 oz.,Barbadoes tar 2 oz., wax 3 oz., red lead 4 oz. - White.

7. Pitch 8 oz., suet 4 oz., oil of turpentine 3 oz.; tincture of cantharides 3 oz. - Delafosse and Lassaigne.

8. Cold Charge. Bole 1/2 white of egg and vinegar, to form a soft paste, to be applied on doubled cloth or leather, and removed as it dries; for sprains in the back sinews. - Bracken.

9. Bruised leaves of elder, or cabbage, or mallow. - B. Clark.

10. Mercurial Charge. B. pitch 1 1/2, wax 1 1/2 ; melt, and add, while cooling, 9 oz. of mercurial ointment previously mixed with 6 drs. of iodine. - Mr. S. Fisher.

11. Soot Charge. Common turpentine 4 1/2 oz., soot 3 oz.; mix. - Delafond.