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being fhaken well together, the parts affefted 



muii be properly and patiently bathed with a 



fufficient quantity every night and morning, 



till the whole is confumed, leaving that grand 



ipecific, rest, to crowp this prelude with 



jfuccefs. 



This treatnrient may fuffice when taken in 

 its early ftate, but where the evil has been 

 fuffered to increafe, and accumulate to a cer- 

 tain degree of lamenefs, attended with vifible 

 -tenfion, inflammation, and extreme pain, as 

 before defcribed, let the above embrocation be 

 ufed as there direfled, it being a proper prepar- 

 ative to the following ftimulative application, 

 which will moft certainly and infallibly efFed 

 the cure, if the inftrudions here laid down 

 are ftridlly adhered to. 



Take cantharides (in powder) one ounce-. 

 Oil of olives fix ounces ♦, 

 Spirits of turpentine two ounces. 

 Mix the Spanifh flies with the olive oil, then 

 add the turpentine. 



Half of this compofition to be well rubbed 

 into the fore-legs, and the other half in four- 



and- 



