148 PUTTING LNTO CONDITION. 



CORDIAL DRINKS. 



Any one of the above, given in half a pint or 

 a pint of warm beer. 



Two wine-glasses of brandy, gin, or rum, and 

 three ditto of hot water. 



Four wine-glasses of port or sherry, and two 

 ditto of hot water, mulled with nutmeg, &c., 

 just as you like it yourself. 



BEER TONIC. 



2 drs. gentian, 2 drs. anise-seed, 1^ dr. tur- 

 meric, f dr. ginger, -| dr. black pepper, in a 

 pint of beer. One half of each article, in only 

 half a pint of beer, is the proper strength to 

 begin with after illness, increasing to the full 

 dose in a week. 



For a horse whose dung always remains soft 

 after the grain has been reduced, and there is no 

 apparent reason to account for it ; — but not to be 

 given until he has first had a mild warm drench 

 of physic, and been afterwards fed for a fortnight 

 on partly boiled grain, with a little gruel always 

 added to his water, — this will frequently harden 



