546 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



Emollient Clyster. 



Take of thin Gruel - - 2 or 3 quarts. 

 Olive Oil - - - - 6 ounces. 

 Coarse Sugar - - - 6 ounces. 

 Dissolve the sugar in the water-gruel, and then add 

 the olive oil. 



Laxative Clyster. 



Thin Water Gruel - - 2 or 3 quarts. 



Glauber's Salts - - - 8 ounces. 



Olive Oil - - - - 6 ounces. 

 When Glaubers salts are not at hand, common salt 

 may be used in the stead. 



A great variety of recipes might be added for making 

 clysters, composed of the infusion of different herbs, 

 seeds, &c. ; but as the above ingredients are always 

 easily got, they will be found to answer all the inten- 

 tions under this head, which is to soften the hardened 

 excrement, to lubricate the intestines, and by exciting 

 a gentle stimulus, promote a free discharge of their 

 contents, which, when once obtained, seldom fail of 

 giving relief in inflammatory cases, spasms, &c. 



Purging Clyster. 



Senna - - - - 2 ounces. 



BoiUng Water - - - 2 quarts. 

 Infuse the Senna, and having strained off the Hquor, 

 add syrup of buckthorn and common oil, each four 

 ounces. 



