UILT ANU RE^JIMEN. '^1 



The Laxative Ball. 



Aloes, one and a half drachms. 

 Ipecacuanha, one and a half drachms. 



Mu N'*h liquorice powder and mucilage for one dose. 



Ti.vse rfiedicines, and every modification of them, which the experienced 

 chemiw-t ran suggest, it is desirable should be tried in succession, as the seat 

 of the disorder is so very various and uncertain, that the partial good which 

 «»ne may effect, will frequently be aided by another. To this end the follow 

 Ing ball and drenches have been prescribed and used with success — 



Diuretic Ball. 



Yellow resin, 2 ounce.s. 



Turpentine, 4 ounces. 



Soap, 3 ounces. 



Salad oil, 1 ounce. 



Oil of aniseed, half an ounce. 



Powdered ginger, 2 ounces. 



ICub the two last together in a mortar, with a little linseed powder. Melt the 

 i^t three articles over a slow fire, and then mix in the powders. Divide the 

 mass into eight balls, and give one a day until the water is affected. 



Drench. — No. 1 



Vinegar, 8 ounces. 

 Squills, 2 ounces. 

 Treacle, 6 ounces. 



Bruise the squills and pour on the vinegar boiling hot; simmer these near the 

 fire two or three hours, then strain off and add the treacle. Divide into three 

 or four parts, and give a portion two or three times in the course of the day. 



Drench.— No. 2. 



Bruised garlic, 4 ounces. 

 Vinegar, 12 ounces. 



Pour on the vinegar boiling hot ; let it simmer four or five hours, strain off and 

 add six ounces of honey. Divide into three parts or four, and give in the 

 course of the day at intervals. 



But no ultimate cure can be effected unless the diet and regimen is pro- 



Serly followed up; nor, if the animal be pushed in his work whilst the disor- 

 er is virulent; and, after all our care, if the cough does not abate, but be- 

 comes worse by reason of a new cold, it fixes upon the lungs, ami the animal 

 drags out a miserable existence. This has been usually treated of as con- 

 Buniption, by reason of its resemblance to the same disorder in human medi- 

 cine, from the wasting away, or consumption of the animal system, which ac- 

 companies a diseased state of the pulmonary arteries. Of tifie importance of 

 this part of the system to animal life, to existence and health, the attentive 

 reader can not fail to be sufficiently aware who has well perused that part of 

 Ihe second chapter of this little manual, in which the functions of the organa 

 of respiration are described with requisite care — page 31 to 35. The hopp- 

 lessncss of bringing a!)()ut n cure, after the ruin h:is proceeded so far as w*) 

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