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dangerous. At daybreak on the following morn- 

 ing, water first, the chill being off, and then give 

 the drench, p. 99, to which you may add three 

 drachms of Turkey rhubarb : but as it is of the 

 greatest consequence that a horse in training 

 should purge, and not be merely sickened with 

 the physic and thus so many days be lost, if a 

 spoonful even is spilled in the giving, another 

 should be added, and the clyster there recom- 

 mended never omitted : wash the mouth cleanly 

 afterwards with the salt and water, and if no 

 strain has been the cause of the physicking, lead 

 for an hour's walk. Read " Physicking" in Part 

 11. for the other precautionary treatment. If 

 gripes take place, a quart of warm beer, with 

 three drachms of ginger, six drachms of anise- 

 seed, and three ounces of ghoor, may be first 

 tried, not omitting the other directions, under 

 " Sickness under Physic :" or the following 

 ball, fresh made and soft, to be washed down 

 with a little beer : — Balsam of capivi, half an 

 ounce ; anise-seed, four drachms ; camphor, one 

 drachm, dissolved in half a wine-glass of gin ; oil 

 of anise-seed, one drachm ; the yolk of an egg ; 

 mix. Should the physic operate a little stronger 

 than desired, take chrecate two ounces, anise- 

 seed two ounces ; boil in three quarts of thin 

 rice congee, strain off, and add to the three 



