FEVERS. 239 



If the horfe is cojlive in body, the excrements 

 hard, dark in colour, and foul in fmell ; the 

 fymptoms of difeafe powerful, with ftrong 

 heaving in the flanks, do not delay the 

 affiftance of the following emollient glyfter, 

 which, being compofed of ingredients entirely 

 DOMESTIC, maybe mod expeditioufly provided. 



Take water gruel two quarts ; 

 Coarfe fugar half a pound : 

 Common fah four ounces (or fingle handful); 

 Olive oil a quarter of a pint. — Mix together, 

 and injedt moderately warm. 



This, by its gentle relaxing property, will 

 probably promote defirable evacuations in both 

 ftool and urine; being equal to any other that 

 can be prefcribed for the purpofe, however pre- 

 pared with articles remote from prefent praftice 

 or difficult to be obtained. If obftrudions 

 fhould not be removed, or the necefliry evacua- 

 tions enfue, repeat the operation in four hours 

 after; ftrengthening your injedion with two 

 ounces oi lenitive eleBuary^ and three ounces of 

 Glauber faltSy both being diffolved in the grueL 

 This will produce certain evacuations, as the 



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