THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 539 



Cerated Glass of Antimony. 



Take of yellow wax, a drachm ; glass of antimony, 

 reduced into a powder, one ounce. Melt the wax in 

 an iron vessel, and throw into it powdered glass ; keep 

 the mixture over a gentle fire for half an hour, con- 

 tinually stirring it ; then pour it out upon paper, and 

 when cold, grind it into powder. The glass melts in 

 the wax with a very gentle heat. After it has been 

 about twenty minutes on the fire, it begins to change 

 its colour, and in ten minutes more, comes near to 

 that of Scotch snufF, which is a mark of its being suffi- 

 ciently prepared. The above quantity loses a about 

 drachm of its weight in the process. 



In the human subject, this medicine was for some 

 time much esteemed in dysenteries. The dose given 

 is from two or three grains to twenty, according to the 

 age and strength of the patient. 



The foregoing are the different preparations of an- 

 timony, but the two that are most useful in veterinary 

 medicine, are the butter of antimony and the emetic 

 tartar. The first is an excellent and safe escharotic, 

 and the last is a useful diaphoretic, and is given with 

 the best effect in all inflammatory complaints, especially 

 in inflammation of the lungs. 



CLYSTERS 



Serve not only to evacuate the contents of the 

 intestines, but also to convey very powerful medicines 

 into the system, when perhaps it is not practicable to 



