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Medicine Drenching Bit

This is a medicine bit bougth on Ebay. It's rusty, but without any damage. The mouthpiece is 15 cm. Weigth 766 gram. There are no markings on the bit, but I think it is a John Dewsbury and son medicine bit, from about 1900. The medicine bits where made to overcome the problems of giving liquid medicine to horses (and stock animals). The theory is that the horse will get the medicine through the mouthpiece of the bit. The medicine would be pored into the nozzel. The allowed the medicine to flow into the horses mouth, but often the horses would slobber the medicine out instead of swallowing it. In the LeGear medicine bit the mouthpice is straigth, thus poring the medicine to far forward. This bit is probably a design made to overcome this problem.

I also have a LeGear medicine bit.

 

 

 
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