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Should, however, any violent symptoms arise 

 from taking the above directed mercurial drink, or 

 ball, so as to produce excessive sickness, purging, 

 and griping pains in the bowels, the following 

 drink may be given, and the mercurial medicine 

 suspended till the horse is better, and then com- 

 mence with the mercurial ball, as directed in 

 glanders (No. 29, p. 54), omitting the sublimate 

 drink, or ball. 



(RECIPE, No. 37.) 



Opening Anodyne Drink. 



Take — Prepared kali, and tincture of opium, of each 

 half an ounce; 

 Castor oil, half a pound ; 

 Ginger, fresh powdered, one ounce: 

 To be given in a pint of warm gruel. 



This drink may be repeated twice in the course 

 of the day, if the symptoms do not abate after 

 the first dose : nothing can be more effectual than 

 the above drink in checking the effects of mercu- 

 rials, and therefore it may be given at all times, 

 when that article exceeds its proper bounds. It 

 sometimes happens that persons of skill and judg- 

 ment are not called in to render their assistance 

 before the horse is reduced to a state that is nearly 

 past recovery. When this is the case, let him 

 have the following drink. 



