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gram, at each feed, two or three days before 

 you commence preparing for physic, is a good 

 way of accustoming them to it. If he should 

 refuse to eat the bran mash on either of the 

 two first days, you may put half a map of soaked 

 gram in it, but none on the day the physic is 

 given. 



Bran Tea. — One gallon of boiling water to be 

 poured over every four maps of bran, and strained 

 off when cold. The bran is quite fit to be eaten 

 afterwards. 



TO MAKE FINE GRAM, OR WHEAT FLOUR GRUEL. 



Mix two maps of the finest flour with six 

 quarts of boiling water in an earthen koondee: 

 put it on the fire for eight or ten minutes, stir- 

 ring it about. If merely mixed with water, it 

 is liable to clot in the stomach and do harm, 

 especially when given in over-purging ; for this 

 last case it must therefore always be made with 

 the hot water, and properly boiled; or keep at 

 hand some previously made thus: boil two or 

 three pounds of dry wheat bajree, or gram flour, 

 tied up in a cloth like a pudding, for four hours : 

 it will keep for months, and a piece being broken 



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