Plain directions for the treatment of the common disorders to which horses, cattle, and sheep are subject, with general rules for their management / by Thomas P. Gostling.

  • Gostling, Thomas P.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Plain directions for the treatment of the common disorders to which horses, cattle, and sheep are subject, with general rules for their management / by Thomas P. Gostling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GOSTLING’S CONDITION BALLS (OR POWDERS) «r\ 1—:> ■KxJ as C3 8— O Pq Q so Os CD <50 GOSTLING’S CONDITION BALLS Promote Health, Strength, and Vigour in THE HORSE. *5$ £ OK o a- Ci -i Co Are recommended as being thoroughly adapted to bring into Pine Condition and preserve in Good Tone THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HORSE. They are an invaluable remedy for Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Swelled Legs, Cracked Heels, Worms, &g. They are also useful for bringing into Condition either HOESES or BULLOCKS ; and further, their action is so general, mild, and complete, that while their health-invigorating properties conduce to the improvement of the condition of the animal, their alter¬ ative, laxative, and diuretic properties, purify the blood, and both prevent and counteract the ill effects of high feeding, as Surfeits, Hidebounds, &c. They are also most efficacious in restoring a Horse to good health that has, from over-work or other causes, become “ out of sorts.” Horses that are constantly and fully fed on dry food, will be considerably benefited by an occasional dose of these Balls ; and after putting a Horse upon a change of food, they will be found equally beneficial. They effectually allay the general inflammation so often pro¬ duced by long and repeated journeys, as in the case of Com¬ mercial Travellers’ Horses ; they also counteract the surfeiting effects of high feeding, by stimulating the liver and digestive organs to a healthy action, so as to ensure the good of the food being appropriated to its proper use, viz.:—to the sufficient supply of pure blood, its conversion into firm fibre, powerful muscley5 strong nerve, and healthy organs. They gently purge the bowels without unduly relaxing them, promote a free flow of urine without immoderately exciting the kidneys, cool the system, cleanse the skin from humours, and cause the coat to be loose, fine and sleek, while at the same time they improve the appetite, and act as a tonic to the general constitution.