APP. — PURGING CLYSTER IN FEVERS. 269 



CHAPTER II. 



CLYSTERS. 



(RECIPE, No. 195.) 



Purging Clyster. 



Take — Mallows and camomile flowers, of each one 

 handful ; 



Fennel seeds, two ounces; 

 Mix and boil them in five quarts of water till 



reduced to four quarts, strain and add 

 Linseed oil, half a pint ; 

 Coarse sugar, four ounces ; 

 Epsom salts, five ounces : 

 Mix, and when dissolved, let it be administered, 



while new-milk- warm. 



This clyster will be found very useful in cooling 

 and opening the body in fevers. 



(RECIPE, No. 196.) 



Restringent Clyster. 



Take — Oak bark, four ounces ; 

 Logwood, four ounces : 



Boil them in four quarts of water till reduced 

 to three ; strain it off, and let it be admini- 

 stered new-milk- warm. 



In cases where the purging is violent, this 



