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likewise be given, every day or oftener, if there should 

 be occasion, particularly if his dung be hard and dry : 



Take marshmallow leaves, two handfuls, half as 

 many chamonnile flowers, and fennel seed, an ounce ; 

 boil the ingredients in three quarts of water, till it comes 

 to about two, then strain it off, and add four ounces of 

 honey or treacle, and a pint of linseed oil. 



Two quarts of water-gruel, or fat broth, with the 

 treacle and oils may be substituted in the place of the 

 above, to which a handful of salt may be added, and 

 these sort of clysters are much more proper in such 

 cases, than those which consist of strong cathartic in- 

 gredients. The following opening drink is sometimes 

 very effectual, and may be given every other day, when 

 the clyster should be omitted : 



Take cream of tartar and glauber's salts, of each 

 four ounces, dissolve them in barley-water or gruel ; an 

 ounce or two of the lenitive electuary, or a drachm of 

 jalap in powder, may be added to quicken the operation, 

 where the case is urgent. 



The diet should be very regular, and no kind of corn 

 should be given, but let scalded or raw bran sprinkled 

 with water be the principal food, with now and then a 

 little hay, which should be picked and given out of the 

 hand, if the horse cannot lift his head to the rack, as is 

 frequently the case. After he has been treated in this 

 manner for about a week, and the fever begins to go off, 

 he may have a cordial ball given him once or twice a 

 day, with an infusion of liquorice root sweetened with 

 honey, to which may be added (when he is troubled 

 with tough phlegm, or a dry husky cough) a few ounces 

 of salad oil, and syrup or oxymel of squills. 



There is every reason to expect that a speedy reco- 

 very will be effected when the fever is found to abate, 

 the mouth to be less parched, and the grating of the 

 teeth but little he^.rd ; when the horse begins to eat, and 



