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LOBEILIA INFLATA.This is perhaps the most valu ihle Medina t ie world produces; I have not a# vei (id nn opportunity to lest its effects on the iman. not yet h iving anv rase that requir-i s application, Hut on the Horse, the i\v Mowing cases will prove its irilitv on the limal creation beyond the possibility of anbt. 1 b« Editors throughout the ignited tatt*s would certainly confer an obligation their patrons to give it an insertion. .In December last I had a valuable Colt t en extremely ifl in t* e course of the nrght appearance in the morning was immedi. e death; I could form no idea of the ciis sc; I gave it several drenc es of such ngs as I had been in the bit of giving mjet- lt;ises: T ffave it several injections of ifferent kinds, and had it passed the whole wgth of a boys arm, but notS ng I did had ♦e least apoa.ent effect. I had a f»vv lavs_ ,ln ’Sj' ' . : . * t _ ‘'.A 1' v- V-V \ ■ JfP 1 /‘[AY t ? Orcyteits obtained half a pound of Lobelia on »e leaf, I proposed giving it r*s an rxperi-oent—one nf* the subscribing witnesses to advis. d me to be cautions of giving n. £ *J _ .■ ■- 'iT\:r.‘'lt;.~ — ~ - a L ^4edicine I had so little knowledge of, least should destroy my beautiful Colt (was her TtDcessioa.) 1 therefore gave it but a smallmrtiaw to what I might otherwise have do’ie ti» ne*t morning 'here was no appearance vf any thing hut imme 'iate dea'h; I was then letermined, live or die, to test the full fleet If this to me unknown Medicine, ,4s wt II jb I can recollect 1 gave it about 3 large ta. Ie spoon fulls and left u for immedate eath, as I had to mde to see or»e of mv neig'i-onrs;on my f report#I mv 0* e^olt w »sB^stck and that I would not gtv on * dol-Ttr ,',ie chance of waving it. In ’he even.g when returned, 4 w^l said I mv Colti 'end —n* said they, it )« to a\*p*' r ince as II as eveit except that it is verv hollow, hev stated that two or three hours sf»**r Iad gttven it the dose of Lobelia that it oplt;ir. Wed bpiskly and in a few mtnut s after got *ip and began to eat lt;he dry strawy the rard wthev then turned in its mother and it suc^.. d hs well as over, which it had not *loner near 40 hours. In the interim I had iteld up to its mother, but it appeared not tolave strength or sense to suck. It has been rfectly well evtr since._srOn Thursday the 5th inst. I rode mv well ■-•A-wtUy horse Farfield out twod tf**rent imes; one to where my negroes were at ork,and in the evening to Mr. King’s stone, discovered nothing to ail him, but that he as extremely restless, and left me each time nd ran home. On my wav from Kings. T |iad an occasion to stop, which gave him an porUinit y of leaving me; this he had not ne for setae years previous—on ^aturdav th a Nfr. Watl wh® Jives with me caught ira to ride to Mingo—he immediately se- t r me, slid yur horse has got a disease hich will in all probability destroy him? bis ead was much swollen, so much so that itas with difficulty he could breathe—.his yes to appearaqpe was sunk in his nead, nd many drops of a yellow glutinou* water as forcing its way through the skin from th upper and lower lips; he was literally overed with pustules from the sifce of a buck hot to that of a rifle ball, but more parti*-u-y on the uiside of the legs an * thighs. I ronminced it a .violent attack of tlm Far-y. 1 paused some time what *n do, ^ind was about preparing several kindspf nrw d-cmes made use of in th^s disease; hut ptlt;t reflectm/f that I nev» r had se*%» a cure |»riduc*» I by either, I determined to dnpetiriLi Iylt;bel»» alone, a large m'fuy cu» Aj 1; jn t*m wormto my dtJi^uilul surprise,the
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Georgetown Winyaw Intelligencer
Georgetown, South Carolina, US
Thu, Mar 05, 1835
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