Chap. XI. Of Intermitting Fevers, \j 



Horfe be old, and much wore with the Diltemper, it will 

 do him more hurt than good. 



Immedia'tely after the Fit is over, give your Horfe an 

 Ounce of the following Powder in Red Wine and Water, 

 and let the Dofe be repeated three or four Times a Day, 

 that, if poffible, theReturnof the Fit may be prevented. 



^' Take Gentian Root two Ounces, Camomile Flowers, 

 *' Galingal, Zedoary, of each one Ounce, Myrrh and 

 *' Gum Guiacum, of each an Ounce and a half, (or if he 

 *' be a Horfe of fmall Value, two Ounces of the Bark of 

 *' Sallafras, or an Ounce of Oil-bark, may be lubftituted 

 *' in the room of the Gum) s make thefe into a fine 

 ** Powder. 



But if there be a Tendency to a Lax or Loofenefs, in 

 fuch a Cafe every Dofe of the Powder may be made up 

 into a dry Palle with Diafcordium^ given him either whole 

 or diflblv'd, in any convenient Liquor ; for a Lofenefs 

 is above all things to be prevented, becaufe in all aguifh 

 Diftempers it contributes to th§ Diminution of a Horfe's 

 Strength. 



I knew a Horfe once cur'd of an Intermitting Diftempei* 

 by repeated Dofes of Diapente given in Ale -, and an emi- 

 nent Farrier told me, he had cured two or three Horfes of 

 Agues, only with Juice of Rue given them in a Morning 

 falling : But the Efficacy of this Herb feems to be more ad- 

 apted to Difeafes of greater Malignity ; as for the Diapente^ 

 it is compofed of the Powders of the Roots Gentian, 

 Birthwort, Myrrh, Bay-berries, Stiavings of Hart's- horn, 

 or Ivory, of each an equal quantity. Thefe Ingredients 

 (the HartVhorn only excepted) are the fame with thofe of 

 the Ele5luar'nim Diatefferon of the London Difpenfatoryy 

 which claims a very ancient Father in Phyfick for its Au- 

 thor, and are not improper in the intermitting Difeafes of 

 Horfes, efpecially when there are Things of more Efficacy 

 joined with them. 



But fince the Virtues of the Jefuits Bark are fufficiently 

 known, and its EfFeds manifeft in the Cure of thofe Di- 

 ftempers in human Bodies, it may, no doubt, be given 

 with good Succefs to Horfes, as the Oeconomy of both is 

 in many Refpeds the fame -, and I am the more ready to 

 introduce this Medicine into the Farrier's Practice, becaufe 

 I knew it given with Succefs to a fine young Horfe, that 

 was fo much addided to Sweating, that he became very 

 weak, and his Fiefh grew exceeding flabby s and indeed 



