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Take of coarfe brown bread and boiled turnips 

 equal parts, and mafh well over the fire : addino- 

 a fufficient quantity of ftale ftrong beer to give 

 it a proper confiftence : and ftir in of beft flour 

 of muflard one ounce, turpentine two ounces, lin- 

 feed powder three ounces, and lard fix ounces, 

 or fufficient to keep it from getting too fliff. 



This muft be continued night and mornino- 

 till a change in appearance renders a variation 

 or treatment neceffary, regulating the ufe of 

 purgatives or diuretics by the face of the difeafe, 

 and the difcretion of the prejcriber, farrier ^ or 

 groom-, adopting fuch choice of the various 

 methods pointed out as may rationally appear 

 moft applicable to the ftate and changes of the 

 fubjecft. During the \vhole progre fs of cure, 

 fuch proportion of gentle motion or exercife 

 fliould be adopted as the nature and circum- 

 ftances of the difeafe will bear; and the horie, 

 if at a proper feafon of the year, be turned out 

 to enjoy the advantages of gradual and volun- 

 tary motion, fo foon as his ftate will admit, 

 firft obferving however mild or fevere this 

 difeafe may have been. So foon as the dif- 

 charge has declined its fcetidity (or offenfive 



fmell) 



