No. 1. Opium from ½ to 1 dr.
Ginger 2 dr.
Gentian-root powder 3 or 4 dr.
Oil of caraways 20 or 30 drops.
Syrup enough to form the ball.
To be given morning and evening for two or three days, and should the
disease then continue, give the following:—
No. 2. Sulphate of copper 1 dr.
Ginger 1 dr.
Linseed powder and syrup enough to form the ball.
To be given every morning and evening until the disease is cured.
Sulphate of copper has been found an excellent tonic in horses. I have
also found the following a good tonic ball:—
No. 3. Sulphate of iron 2 to 3 or 4 dr.
Powdered ginger 1 dr.
Powdered Gentian 3 to 4 dr.
Treacle enough to form the ball.
I have seen an increased discharge of urine brought on in draught horses
by working them beyond their strength; this has been attended with great
weakness, especially of the hind parts, and loss of appetite. I have
found great benefit in such cases from turning the horse to grass, and
letting him remain there for some time, giving him a little _good_ hay,
or some oats, when it appears necessary.—_White._
DIACHYLON, _s._ An ingredient in sticking plaster.
Diachylon (litharge or lead plaster) is made by boiling olive oil nine
parts, litharge five parts, water two parts, over a slow fire, and
constantly stirring, until the oil and the litharge unite, and acquire
the consistence of plaster. The water must be replaced as it evaporates.
Diachylon is an ingredient in sticking plaster and charges, and is
useful when spread on leather, for defending a tender part from
pressure.
DIAPENTE, _s._ A compound powder, tonic and stomachic.
DIAPHORETIC, _a._ Sudorific, promoting perspiration. The most useful
sudorifics in veterinary practice, are hot stimulants, combined
with antimony and opium.
DICE, _s._ The plural of die.
DICE-BOX, _s._ The box from which the dice are thrown.
DICER, _s._ A player at dice, a gamester.
DIDAPPER, _s._ A small bird of the diver kind.
DIE, _v._ To tinge, to colour.
DIE, _s._ Colour, tincture, stain, hue acquired; a small cube,
marked on its faces with numbers from one to six, which
gamesters throw in play; hazard, chance; any cubic body.
_Recipes for Dyeing Hair._—(Dark water colour.)—Take a pint of strong
ale, half a pound of soot, a small quantity of the juice of walnut
leaves, and an equal quantity of alum powdered fine; mix them well, and
boil them in a pipkin half an hour; when the mixture is cold, put in the
hair, and let it remain ten or twelve hours.
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Some boil a quarter of a pound of soot in a pint of strong alum water,
with a little juice of walnut leaves, for half an hour, and steep the
hair in it when nearly cold.
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For a _brown_, take some powdered alum, boil it well until dissolved;
then add a pound of walnut-tree bark, from the branches when the sap is
up, or the buds or green nuts; boil it in an hour, and let it stand.
When after skimming it for ten minutes, put in the gut or hair for about
a minute (stirring it round), or until you like the colour. If it
continues too long, it will become quite dark and injure the hair. The
lighter it is tinged with this colour, the better. Salt and ale will
also give hair a brownish cast that is steeped in it.
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For a blueish water colour, proceed as above; only add logwood instead
of the walnut, and be careful not to colour it too much.
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_Yellow._—The inner bark of a crab-tree boiled in water with some alum,
makes a fine yellow, which is excellent when the weeds rot, the line
appearing of the same hue. Another dye may be obtained from two quarts
of small ale, and three handfuls of walnut leaves bruised therein; the
hair to remain in it until tinged to your wish.
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_Tawny_ is prepared from lime and water mixed together, by steeping hair
in it for four or five hours, and then soaking it a whole day in a tan
pit.
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_Russet._—Take a pint of strong lye, half a pound of soot, some juice of
walnut leaves, and a quart of alum water; put them together into a pan,
boil them well, and when the liquor is cold, steep the hair until it
acquires the colour you desire.
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_General Remark._—The hair to be dyed, should always be the best white:
the seasons for using dyed hair, are, September and two following
months; the yellow, russet all the winter, and until the end of April,
as well in rivers as in lakes; for the same periods, the brown and tawny
should be used in blackish, heathy, and moorish waters.
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_Dyeing or Staining Fishing-rods._—Red is done by boiling the wood in
water and alum; then taking it out, adding Brazil to the liquor, and
giving the wood another boil in it. Black, by brushing it over with
logwood, boiled in vinegar, then washing it over with a decoction of
galls and copperas, till it be of the hue required. Any other colour may
be given by squeezing out the moisture of horse-dung through a sieve,
mixing it with dissolved roch alum and gum arabic, and to the whole
adding green, blue, or any other colour designed. After standing two or
three days, pear-tree or other wood cut to the thickness of half-a-crown
is put into the liquor boiling hot, and suffered to remain till it be
sufficiently coloured.
_In Dyeing Bone, Horn, or Ivory._—Black is performed by steeping brass
in aqua fortis till it be turned green; with this, the bone, &c., &c.,
is to be washed once or twice, and then put in a warm decoction of
logwood and water. Green, is verdigris, sal ammoniac, and white wine
vinegar; keeping the material therein till sufficiently green. Red is
began by boiling it in alum water, and finished by a decoction in a
liquor compounded of quicklime steeped in rain-water strained. To every
pint an ounce of Brazil wood is added: the bone to be boiled therein
till sufficiently red.—_Ancient Recipes._
DIET, _s._ Food, victuals; food regulated by the rules of medicine.
DIG, _v._ To work with a spade.
_Digging Foxes._—With respect to the digging of foxes which hounds run
to ground, if the hole be straight and earth slight, follow it, and in
following the hole, by keeping below its level, it cannot be
lost.—_Beckford._
DIGEST, _v._ To generate matter as a wound.
DIGESTION, _s._ The act of concocting food; the preparation of
matter by a chemical heat; the act of disposing a wound to
generate matter.
DIGESTIVES, _s._ Medicines which promote suppuration in ulcers, and
cause them to discharge a white healthy matter.