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he coughs, put a drachm of antimouial powder, 

 and three drachms of nitre in two wine-glasses 

 of hot water, and then mix with three ounces 

 of the simple oxymel, and give it twice a-day, 

 before his morning's and evening's mash, which 

 must now have less boiled grain in them ; and 

 do not exercise him beyond a walk. If the 

 cold is very bad, he must not be moved from 

 his loose stall, but clysters of warm soap and 

 water used every other day. In some of these 

 severe colds, when the pulse is much quickened, 

 the glands below the ears perhaps swollen, the 

 skin dry, and the running from the nostrils 

 thick and plentiful, taking two or three quarts 

 of blood is necessary, giving six ounces of Epsom 

 salts in a pint of thin warm congee, every morn- 

 ing and evening, until it begins to operate. 

 Should the cold and cough not be of this se- 

 vere acute kind, but remain hanging on him 

 ten days or more, and the pulse be under forty- 

 two, leave off the antimonial powder, &c., and 

 resort to the mild beer tonic stimulant, p. 148, 

 once a-day, in the morning ; giving also half a 

 drachm of asafoetida in half of one of the fried 

 vegetable bringals, every afternoon. A little of 

 the Bambooke pulta, is also useful in this case. 



Simfle Oxymel, — Two pounds of honey and 



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