"88 FEVERS. 



It will be proper to assist the medicines in their 

 operation by back-raking, and administering the 

 clyster (No. 12, p. 29). By these means the me- 

 decines may be expected to purge in the course of 

 twelve, sixteen, or twenty hours. If, at the end 

 of that time, the fever still continue to increase, 

 it will be proper to take a little more blood from 

 him, and then to have recourse to the following 

 fever powders. 



(RECIPE, No. 60.) 

 A Poiverful Mixture for Fevers. 



Take — Emetic tartar, one ounce; 



Calcined antimony, two ounces ; 



Calcined hartshorn, one ounce : mix and grind 



them in a mortar to a fine powder ; 

 Then put them in a bottle for use : two drachms 



of these powders are a proper dose for a horse. 



A dose of this powder, with one ounce of nitre, 

 may be given twice or three times a day, in a pint 

 of warm gruel, or be made into a ball with con- 

 serve of roses. If the fever be violent, and the 

 liorse in a raging state, half an ounce of tincture of 

 opium may be added to each dose of powders. 



The above powders are excellent for the stag- 

 gers, convulsions, and all kinds of inflammatory 

 fevers; but, whenever the symptoms appear, a 

 more powerful medicine than the ball (No. 55, 

 p. 82) can hardly be found in the whole Materia 



