Suppose the digestive organs to be deranged, and rumination to have
ceased; then take a tea-spoonful of extract of butternut, and dissolve
it in a pint of thoroughwort tea, and give it at a dose. Use an
injection of soap-suds, if necessary.
Suppose the excrement to be hard, coated with slime, and there be danger
of inflammation in the mucous surfaces; then give a wine-glass of
linseed oil,[18] to which add a raw egg.
It is scarcely ever necessary to repeat the dose, provided the animal is
allowed a few scalded shorts.
If the liver is supposed to be inactive, give, daily, a tea-spoonful of
golden seal in the food.
If the animal void worms with the faeces, then give a tea made from cedar
boughs, or buds, to which add a small quantity of salt.