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bf the cafe may render necefTary and uii- 

 avoidable: 



Take of Caftile foap half an ounce; nitre, 

 rofin, and compound powder of gum traga- 

 canth, each two drachms : opium (in powder) 



ten grains, oil of juniper thirty drops, 



Mix. 



The following tirink may be fubftltuted, if 

 a liquid is required, as it will prove equally 

 efficacious : 



Take thin gruel three quarters of a pint; gum 

 arabic;, and nitre {In powder) each one ounce; 

 liquid laudanum three drachms. — Mix. 



This (as the ball above) may ^be occafionally 

 repeated. 



Horfes are llkewife 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, ftrains in drawing 

 great weights, and many other incidental cir- 

 cumftances, to which they are conftantly fub- 

 jedt in their different employments. The de- 

 fefts arifing from fuch caufes originate in a 

 relaxation or rupture of fome one or more of 

 ^ B b that 



