Cure For Spavin

Add two table-spoons for melted lard, one of cantharides, made fine or pulverized, and a lump of corrosive sublimate as large as a pea – all melted up and applied once a day till used up, confining it to the callous. This quantity is for one leg and may be relied on as a cure. It will make a sore, and the joint will be much weakened while applying the medicine. No need of alarm, it will all be right when healed up. [Farmer and Mechanic

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, May 28, 1864