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liours, attend to thofe moft alarming, and 

 proceed to their mitigation accordingly ; if 

 ftill collive, repeat the laxative glyftcry or the 

 following drink : 



Take Epfom falts and cream of tartar, each three 

 ounces j 

 Soluble tartar one ounce ; diflblve in three quarters 

 of a pint of thin gruel ; then add tin6l:ure of 

 jalap half an ounce, and tinclurc of fenna two 

 ounces. — Mix. 



Should the cough increafe hleedy in propor- 

 tion : if the urine is fmall in quantity, high in 

 colour, or depoiits a turbid fediment upon being 

 faved, give nitre frequently, and in fmall pro- 

 portions, as before direded. During all the 

 tedious ceremony of indifpofition wait with 

 patience, and attend to the indications of 

 Nature more than the bewildered doubts and 

 prognoftics of the farrier, w^ho, knowing little 

 of the anatomical frrvMure^ lefs of the a?7i?nal 

 economy, and totally incapable of forming any 

 confijient idea of the properties of medicine, 

 ftands a perplexed Granger to both caiijcs and 

 events, profefTionally infenfibie to the founda- 

 tion of either hope ox fear. 



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