46 PHYSIC, &c, 



STRINGENT BALL be prepared and given im- 

 mediately, repeating it in six or eight hours, 

 if necessary. 



Take mithridate one ounce, Armenian bole, gum arable, 

 and prepared chalk (in fine powder) each half 

 an ounce; ginger (in powder) two drachms; 

 syrup of diacodium quantity sufficient to make 

 a balL 



In three hours after let the following re- 

 stringent MASH be given properly pre- 

 pared, and kept occasionally stirring, when 

 over the fire to prevent its burning : or this 

 may be given, if necessary, without the ball, 

 where the operation has not been so violent 

 as to require both. 



RESTRINGENT MASH. 



Take two pounds of rice, and half an ounce of cin- 

 namon, bruised to a gross powder, and tied up 

 loose in a piece of linen (fine enough to prevent 

 its passing through) ; boil in five quarls of water 

 till reduced to the consistence of a mush : take 

 out the cinnamon, and stir in a quart of ground 

 oat-raeal, and let it be placed in the manger when 

 of a proper warmth. This may be repeated if 

 necessary. 



It cannot be inapplicable, after the.se pre- 

 scriptions, to make a remark upon one ob- 



