Powdered bayberry bark, half a table-spoonful.
" charcoal, 1 table-spoonful.
Slippery elm, 1 ounce.
Boiling water, 1 gallon.
Mix. Give a quart every two hours.
The diet should consist of flour gruel and boiled carrots. Boiled
carrots may be allowed (provided the animal will eat them) during the
whole stage of the malady.
The object of these examples of special practice is to direct the mind
of the farmer at once to something that will answer a given purpose,
without presuming to say that it is the best in the world for that
purpose. The reader will find in our _materia medica_ a number of
articles that will fulfil the same indications just as well.