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being confequently low, and off his appetite) 

 let the following cordial restringent 

 BALL be prepared and given immediately, 

 repeating it in fix or eight hours if necellary : 



Take mithridate one ounce, Armenian hole, gum 

 arable, and prepared chalk (in fine powder), each 

 half an ounce •, ginger (in powder) two drachms; 

 fyrup of diacodium quantity fufficient to make a 

 ball. 



In three hours after let the following re- 

 stringent MASH be given, properly pre- 

 pared, and kept occafionally ftirring when 

 over the fire, to prevent its burning : or this 

 may be given, if neceffary, without the ball, 

 where the operation has not been fo violent as 

 to require both. 



RESTRINGENT MASH 



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

 - namon, bruifed to a grofs powder, and tied up 

 loofe in a piece of linen/ (fine enough to prevent 

 its pafling through) ; boil in five quarts of water 

 till reduced to the confiftence of a mafh : take out 

 the cinnamon, and ftir in a quart of ground oat- 

 meal, and let it be placed in the manger when 

 of a proper warmth. This may be repeated if 

 neceffary. 



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