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" fufion every day, with half an Ounce of //"^;//V^ Treacle, 

 *' or Mithridate diilblved in each Pint ; if you add cam- 

 " phorated Spirits of Wine, it will be yet more efficacious, 

 *^ which may be done in the Manner following. 



" Take Spirit of Wine redified, or French Brandy, 

 *' half a Pint, diilolve in it two Drams of Camphire, let 

 *' two or three Spoonfuls of it be mixed with each Dofe of 

 *' the Cordial Infufion, and it will be a great Means to 

 "^ overcome the Malignity of the Diftemper. 



The fick Horfe mult be kept in warm Cloathing, and his 

 Body often rubb'd 5 but if the Diftemper proceeds from In- 

 fedion, the Sound ought to be removed from the Unfound, 

 and the Stable perfum'd, by burning Pit^ih, Frankincenfe, 

 .Olibanum, green Juniper Wood, and the like. 



If the Diltemper goes off like the Glanders, by a diA 

 charge of ftinking corrupt Matter from the Nofe, as is not 

 uncommon in fuch Cales, Diofcordium diflblv'd in a De- 

 codion, or Infufion of Red rofe Leaves, as in the preceed- 

 ing Chapter, may be given him for feveral days ; the like 

 may be done in Cafes of any Impofthumation. 



I (hall put an End to this Chapter, by in- ^ Medicine of 

 ferting a Medicine of the Sieur de SoUeyfell^ ^^^ ^-^^^ ^^ 

 which he recommends in Peftilential Fevers, Solleyfell. 

 a^d vv'ith which that Author performed a 

 confiderable Number of Cures in Germany^ where there 

 happened to be a great Mortality among the Horfes in that 

 Country. The Medicine was this. 



" Take Treacle not above three Months old, and Akes 

 *.^ HepGtica in t?owder, of each an Ounce, Confection of 

 .*' Hyacinth and Aikermes without Musk or Ambergreafe, 

 V of each half an Ounce, diilolve them in a Decoction of 

 " Scabious^ Cardials 'Benedi^uSy and Speedwell, of each 

 *' a large Handful." The faid Author obferves, that the di- 

 llilled Waters of thofe Herbs were more efiedual than the 

 Decoftion ; but that might be accidental : For he mud have 

 had a vail many Inftances before he could be fure of their 

 different Efficacy. But we fhall proceed to his Method, 

 becaufe it is better than what we have hitherto met with in 

 any Author, or known pradtifed by any of our Farriers. 



The next and the following day after this Medicine was 

 exhibited, he injected Clylters ; and if the Violence of the 

 Diitemper was not abated, the Remedy was again repeated 

 cnlf with half the quantity of the Treacle, Aloes, and Con- 

 t^ittons 3 but the qi)antiiy of the Decodtion w^s the f^i'^e. 



■ This 



