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Srove serviceable in ordinary cases. Of these, the Indian salt (sal Indicus") 

 cserves the first consideration, though denounced as differing very little from 

 common salt, with a small {)ortion of sulphur, both of which are known to 

 be goodly anthelmintic. Bo its virtues what it may, the following substitute 

 will be found to contain all the properties of the genuine salt, and may be 

 employed when this can not be readily procured. 



Laxatice Powder. — No. 1. 



Sublimated sulphur, i ounces, 

 Emetic tartar, 4 drachms, 

 Liver of sulphur, I ounce, 

 Bay Salt, 4 ounces. 



Mix for six doses, one to be given daily in the corn, which should be previ- 

 ously moistened with water-gruel. As soon as the bowels are tolerably open- 

 ed, desist for a week at least, but should it fail to produce this effect, give the 

 following 



Laxatice Balls. 



Barbadoes aloes, 4 drachms, 



Gamboge, 1 drachm. 



Hard soa\\ 3 drachms, 



Anise seeds powdered, 4 drachms, 



Oil of cloves, G drops. 



Mix with syrup of buckthorn enough to form the mass, iind divide into two bella. 

 Give them on two successive mornings, unless the first prove effectual 1 

 have found these balls, without any other aid, produce worms, a few, by re- 

 peating as often as five or six times. Another preparation of antimony may 

 be substituted for the first mentioned powder, viz. 



Laxative Powder. — No. 2. 



Liver of antimony, 3 ounces, 

 Cream of tartar, 4 ounces. 



Mix for six doses, one to be given daily until the liody is opened. But should 

 not this happen, the laxative ball just advised should be given. 



Savin (the leaves pounded, and a spoonful given twiee a day in the horse's 

 oats for ten days, and then laxative balls above, bring away slimy matter with 

 the dung, and worms alive. 



Arsenic has been tiied, to the amount often grains a day, for a week, but 

 its powers are tonic only : it is a dangerous remedy in unskilful hands. All 

 bitters are anthelmintic and tonic; thus wormwood, rue, and chamomile flow- 

 ers, have been attributed the faculty of killing the worms, but the fact is not 

 exactly so; those effects are produced by bracing the stomach, and restoring 

 its tone, and thus disposing the parts to throw off the intruders. 



STAGGERS, APOPLEXY, MEGRIMS, VERTIGO, FITS. 



Staggers is the common or vulgar name given to all those disorders of the 

 head, which consist in vertigo, or "swimming of the head." Drowsiness at- 

 tending this symptom confers the distinction of sleepy etaggers upon this kind 



