horse-medicine

He was in the stables, talking horse-medicine with an old groom, their heads over a thrushy foot, the horse nosing his neck.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

And made the old man use a strong horse-medicine on him ... which he himself brought up from the stables ....

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

And made the old man use a strong horse-medicine on him ... which he himself brought up from the stables ....

Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

The mantelpiece was occupied by bottles of horse-medicine and boxes of cartridges; an elderly white cockatoo, chained by the leg to a galvanised iron perch, sunned himself by the door, and at intervals gave an exhibition of his latest accomplishment, in which he imitated the yowl of a trodden-on cat much better than the cat could have done it himself.

Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

It was, of course, a worse dose than the horse-medicine.

The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868

No, no, my most excellent ladies and gentlemen, let us not form unreasonable expectations; day is not night; summer is not winter; nor is a horse-medicine a febrifuge.

Jacques Bonneval Anne Manning 1843

You see, my darling, you are all right, for all your money will be settled on yourself; so that if I smash up there, the worst that can happen will be your having to maintain me till I can 'strike ile,' or bring out a patent horse-medicine, or become riding-master to young ladies. "

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston