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of the cafe may render neceflary and unavoid- 

 able : 



Take of Caftile foap half an ounce ; nitre, rofin, and 

 compound powder of gum tragacanth, each two 

 drachms : opium (in powder) ten grains ; oil 

 of juniper thirty drops. — Mix. 



The following drink may be fubflituted, 

 if a liquid is required, as it will prove equally 

 efficacious : 



Take thin gruel three quarters of a pint; gum arable, 

 and nitre (in powder) each one ounce ; liquid 

 laudanum three drachms. — ^Mix. 

 This (as the ball above) may be occafionally re- 

 peated. 



Horfes are likewife liable to, and often fuf- 

 tain, injuries upon the parts we now treat of^^ 

 by being overloaded with folid heavy fub- 

 ftances upon the loins, flrains in drawing 

 great weights, and many other incidental cir- 

 cumftances, to which they are eonftantly fub- 

 je6t in their different employments. The de- 

 feds arifing from fuch caiifes originate in a 

 relaxation or rupture of fome one or more of 

 B b that 



