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cough, with sometimes considerable fever. (See 

 the section on Strangles, infra.) 



In an attempt to cure this most formidable dis- 

 ease we must first consider the horse's constitution, 

 habit of body, and the state the disease may have 

 reduced him to. If on examination he be found 

 able to undergo the operation of the following 

 mercurial and purgative medicines, let them be 

 administered. 



(RECIPE, No. 27.) 



Mereurial Ball. 



Take — Calomel, one drachm ; 



Red nitrateof quicksilver, one scruple, reduced 



into fine powder ; 

 Precipitated sulphuret of antimony, ghiger, 



and Castile soap, of each two drachms : 

 Make them into a ball, with a little syrup. 



Let this ball be given at night, after the horse 

 has eaten his mash, and the following purgative 

 ball next morning. 



(RECIPE, No. 28.) 



Purging Ball. 



Take — Barbadoes aloes, six drachms; 



Ginger, and Castile soap, of each two drachms; 

 Oil of sassafras, half a drachm : 

 Beat the whole into a ball with syrup of buck- 

 thorn. 



