This section is from the "The Indian Household Medicine Guide" book, by J. I. Lighthall. Also available from Amazon: The Indian Household Medicine Guide
Give a teaspoonful of pulverized lobelia, same of saltpeter, licorice and skunk cabbage. Mix them altogether and divide into three powders, and give one two or three times a day in the feed until cured.
Oil of Spike
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
ounces.
Oil of Organum
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces.
Oil of Hemlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 2 ounces.
Oil of Wormwood
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces.
Aqua Ammonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 2 ounces.
Camphor Gum
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
mounces.
Olive Oil
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 4 ounces.
This is a good liniment for man or beast in cases of cuts, sprains, strains, curbs and bruises.
Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 2 ounces.
Turpentine
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
ounces.
Oil of Cajaput
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
ounces.
Sweet or Olive Oil
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces.
Keep the saddle and harness off, and grease the sore placs with
mutton tallow, and when you put the saddle and harness on again have
them padded so that they will not make the horse sore.
This is a certain cure. Do as I tell you and I will guarantee a positive or permanent cure. Put the horse in a clean, dry stable, and keep the floor clean and dry. Feed him on oats, for oats are not heating to the blood, and for rough food give him fodder or rye straw. Wash his feet well, morning and night, with rain water and good common soft soap. After the feet are thoroughly cleansed, take four ounces of lard and half an ounce of blue vitrol, or blue stone pulverized fine, and mix it well with the lard, and apply. I will give any man the price of his horse that this will not cure. This is a positive cure, a certain cure, and is alone worth one dollar to any man who has horses afflicted in this way. After they are cured, if they have to go into the mud, you can prevent a return by painting the parts with white paint, made of linseed oil and white lead.
 
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