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an irregularity in habit, bearing alternate ap- 

 pearance of HEALTH and SICKNESS, corref- 

 ponding in fome degrees with the inter mittent^ 

 or agues of our own fpecies, cordial Homachic 

 reftoratives are the medicines upon which the 

 exped:ation of cure may be with moil certainty 

 formed; therefore prepare the following 

 balls : 



Take of Peruvian bark (in powder) four ounces ; 

 Mithridate (or dlacordium) two ounces ; 

 Winter's bark, fnake-rootjand camomile (in powder) 



each one ounce; 

 Honey fufficient to make a mafs, which divide into 



fix balls. 



Of thefe let one be given every night and 

 morning, w^hen the horfe is in a ftate of temper- 

 ance, perceptibly free from every appearance 

 of extreme heat or cold, continuing them till 

 double the above are taken, fhould the cafe 

 require it. Where a drink is preferred, one 

 of the balls may be gradually difiblved in three 

 quarters of a pint of thin gruel, to which may 

 be added a common glafs of good brandy. As 

 there are no more cafes coming into an exadl 

 line of fimilitude with thofe v/e have now 



treated 



