53 S Review cf a i'reatffe on HorJeSy and on the Moral Aug; 



quantity of fvveet oil, mixed, or a little diluted with thin gruel, if 

 tliought too ftrong ; keep the horfe on his legs, and exercife him forth- 

 vnth. If to be obtained foon, and demanded by the exigence, add to 

 the glyfter four to fix ounces of Glauber's falts : Or, of tincture of 

 jalep, or of fenna, two ounces ; or beft aloes, in very fine powder, half 

 an ounce ; and to the drink, three or four ounces fyrup of buckthorn ; 

 or Elixir Pro[)>tetatiSy or Tinciura facra ; callor oil may be ufed inftead 

 of olive ; a notched onion may be thruft: up the fundament ; or an onion, 

 and a piece of foap the fize of an Q^<g^ beat up together into a foft 

 bolus, with a pinch or two of pepper ; afterwards a glyiler of black 

 foap, one ounce to a pint warm water. Should fupprcfTed perfpiration 

 thrown on the bowels be among the caufes, the warm feeds, gin- 

 ger, caftor, and camphor, fhould make part of both the drinks 

 and glyfters. For a large cait-horfe, where wind is not the predomi- 

 nant fymptom, and no appearance of cold, the following drink : Gin, 

 brandy, or rum, and fweet oil, one pint each, mix with the folution of fix 

 ounces Glauber's falts, repeat in two or three hours, warm gruel in the 

 iiiterim. The repetition of thefe mull be left to the judgement of the 

 practitioner ; but plenty of vv^arm gruel and warm water Ihould ever, in 

 thefe cafes, be at immediate call ; as fometimes the throwing in , two or 

 three gallons of thefe, at both ends, and at proper intervals, will do the 

 needful, with little or no afiiftance from the apothecar)% Bracken can. 

 tions againll the common pradlice of farriers, who give large quantities 

 of Venice treacle, mithridate, or diafcordium, both by way of drink and 

 glyfter, upon loaded inteftines ; thereby locking up the caufe of the 

 difeafe ftill more fecurely : he compares it to firing a piftol into the 

 horfe's fundament, by way of clearing all obftrudlions at once. Mafhes. 

 A week after the cure, a gentle purge or two. 



* The Flatulent, or Wind Colic, is known by great fullnefs and 

 tenfion of the belly, from rarefaftion of the air contained in the inteftines ; 

 borborigmi, or rumbhng of the g its, discharges of wind, and frequently 

 llrangury, occafioned by the fullnefs and prefTure of the ftreight gut 

 Hpon the neck of the bladder. This lail is ce :oted by the horfe rolhng 

 upon his back, and by frequent ineffectual attempts to ftale. Crib-biters^ 

 from conitantly fucking in large quantities of air, are particularly fubjedt 

 to windy gripts. 



* The ir.tcntion cf Cure plainly confifts in the fpeedy exhibition of 

 volatile and cai-minative, of diuretic and laxative medicines, which 

 ought to be given both in the form of glyfter, and by the mouth. 

 Ball. Sti-afburg, or Venice turpentine, juniper berries, and carraway 

 feeds pounded, each half an ounce ; fine aloes, well powdered, two 

 dnichms ; fal pruncl, one ounce ; chymical oil of juniper, one drachm ; 

 fait of tartar, two drachms ; ball with honey and hard foap. Wafh 

 down with a pint or two warm gruel. Or, the following drink : 

 Caltile foap and nitre, one ounce each ; juniper berries, and carraway 

 feeds, half an ounce each ; ginger powdered, two drachms ; Venice 

 turpentine, difiblvcd with the yolk of an ^^'^^ fi.X drachjns j tiudure of 



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