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to fome convenient Emun«flory or Oat-let, with- 

 out doing any Injury by the Way. 



Such Juices likewife draw tlie Fibres into Spafms 

 or Convulfive Twitching?, and keep them tenfe or 

 upon the Stretch, (o that Obib'uftions of the worle 

 Kind are frequently formM. 



In all fuch Cafes therefore, Emollients lubricate 

 and moillcn the Fibres, fo as to relax or loofen them 

 into their proper Dimenfions, whereupon the Caufe 

 cf the Grie'vance is remo'ved, and the Diforder ceafes. 

 Now to return. 



The Swelling of the Glands, in the Diforder of 

 the Strangles, Vi^'es, See. muft be well embrocated 

 or rubbed with fome foftening Ointment, or Oil, 

 inch as Ointment of Marfh-Mallows, commonly 

 c.dV d Dialtkr^^ Oil cf Lillics^ or the like ; warm 

 thefe pretty well when you ufe them ; but, where 

 they cannot be had, I think (wt^tfre/h Butter may 

 do well enough. However, before I quit the Sub- 

 je(5l of Eynollient Applications, I cannot omit fetting 

 down an Ointment I have often tried (with great 

 Succefs ) to di flblve tumefied or fwellM Glands in 

 human Bodies, whether from (what is commonly 

 call'd ) the E-vil, or from any other Caufe whatfo- 

 cver ; and if it will do this in Man, it will do the 

 f;ime in Brute Creatures, only making it a little 

 mere penetrating, by reafon of the Skin's being 

 thicker in thofe than in human Bodies ; and this 

 may be done by adding a little Oil cf Turpentine, 

 and Spirit cf Wine, mix'd in equal Quantities. 

 About a Tea Spoonful of this Mixture to an Ounce 

 cf the Ointment well incorporated together, will 

 be fufficient, with long Frifticn cr Rubbing, to 

 c lufe it to enter the Pores and difperfe the Swell- 

 ing, provided fuch Swelling be taken in its firft 

 Stage, and before the ftagnating Humours are be- 

 come corrupt. The 'cccnii 



Ointm nc 



The Ointment is this, Take the Flo^jers of ^>^^ Stran-" es 

 Herb Digitalis or Fox-Glo-ve, any ^antity, and in., 



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