252 SCOURING, &c. 



THE ANODYNE STARCH CLYSTER. 



Take boiled llarch, of moderate confiftence, three 

 pints; gum arabic (in powder) two ounces; 

 liquid laudanum half an ounce j cold drawa 

 linfeed oil four ounces. 



So ibon as the purging (or rather irritation 

 iind ftraining) is fubdued, the appetite will 

 confequently increafe, and- become in fome 

 meafure reftored : attend to that circumftance, 

 and promote it by every poffible means, aflift- 

 ing for three or iix mornings v/ith one of the 

 following rejlorative Jlomachic balls. 



THE RESTORATIVE BALL. 



Take Venice treacle half an ounce ; Peruvian bark 

 fix drachmSj columbo root and camomile floweTs 

 (in powder) of each two drachms; oil of cara- 

 ways fu^c-and-fwenty drops j honey fufficient Co 

 make the ball. 



If the Iiorfe iliould be very much reduced 

 m flefh, continue weak jji body and appetite, 

 forming the appearance of general debilitation, 

 let the frame be iiniverfally aflifled^ and the 

 cure completed by a dozen of the balls pre- 

 fcribed (p. 209;) giving one every morning, 

 either in the ftatethere direded, or diiTolved in 

 a fufliGient portion of gruel. 



MOLTEN 



