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(RECIPE, No. 182.) 



Take — Barbadoes aloes, four drachms ; 

 Electuary of senna, two ounces ; 

 Epsom salts, two ounces ; 

 Nitre, one ounce ; 

 Tincture of opium, two drachms : 

 Mix, and dissolve in a quart of thin gruel. 



The horse must be treated in the same manner 

 as for other physic, that is to say, with warm water, 

 and mashes of scalded bran and oats, two or three 

 times a day. After the physic has ceased to ope- 

 rate, the horse may be treated the same as in 

 other fevers. If, however, the horse should incline 

 to be costive, let the clyster (No. 12, p. 29) be 

 administered once a day. The parts round the 

 fetlock and pastern-joints must be well rubbed 

 with (No. 131, p. 169), or with the following 

 cooling mixture. 



(RECIPE, No. 183.) 



Take— Sal ammoniac, two ounces; 

 Nitre, one ounce; 

 Dissolve them in one pint of the best wine 



vinegar; 

 Spirit of turpentine, two ounces ; 

 Camphorated spirit of wine, four ounces : 

 Mix, and keep them in a bottle for use. 



This mixture must be rubbed all round the 



