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luckily obtained in the fame yard) and covered 

 with litter, for his immediate reception, a par- 

 cel of hay being fufpended at each end, to 

 excite his alternate motion from one end to the 

 other, when either bundle was confumed. 



Ingredients were diredlly procured for the 

 following decoction: 



Take rofemary leaves, Roman wormwood, lavender 

 flowers, marfhmallow leaves, and camomile flowers, 

 of each four ounces j boil in ten quarts of water till 

 reduced to eight, then ftrain. 



The whole limb was then fomented (with 

 two large pieces of fponge alternately, as hot as 

 the decodtion could be brought into ufe with- 

 out danger) from the very ftifle to the footlock 

 joint, continuing it for a quarter of an hour at 

 leajl, each time of ufing the fomentation, and 

 repeating it three times a day at equal diftances 

 of time, rubbing in after every operation, upon 

 the hough joint and neighbouring parts, a two 

 ounce phial full of the following anodyne 

 folution : 



G g 4 Take 



