30 PURGING DRINK. 



(RECIPE, No. IS.) 



Purging Drink. 



Take — The best senna, two ounces; just give it a 

 boil in a quart of water, and then let it in- 

 fuse for two hours in a pot close covered 

 down. Strain it oflj and add, 



Glauber's salts, four ounces ; 



Barbadoes aloes, three drachms : 



Prepared kali, half an ounce; 



Aromatic powdei', two drachms : to be given 

 new-milk- warm. 



This drink may be given as soon as the horse 

 has cooled a little, after which let him fast one 

 hour, then give him a mash of scalded bran and 

 oats, and warm water. If the drink be given at 

 night, it in general begins to operate the next 

 morning. This drink is of excellent service in all 

 kinds of inflammatory disorders, and in carrying 

 off the molten grease after violent exercise, which 

 often causes great heat, restlessness, and inward 

 sickness. 



