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very foveraign for any Difeafe coming of old Caufes. Take a Quart of 

 good Ale or Wine, a raw Egg beaten and mingled with twelve Serirples 

 of quick Sulphur, and four Scruples of Myrrh n^ade into powder, and 

 give it the Horfe to drink, it is a good Drench. The Powder of Bf im- 

 iloiie mixt with fweet Wine, is a good Drench aifo. The Root of the 

 Sea-Onion, the Roots of Poplar, called the Greek Rhamnos, mingled 

 with common Salt, given in Water, keepeth the Horfe long in health. 

 Take fine powder of Fenugreek, and bruife it, feethe it in Water 

 till it wax thick, add a Pound of fweet-Butter, an Ounce of Linfeed Oii, 

 and as much of the Oil of Nuts ; mingle them well together, and give 

 it the Horfe in three or four Days to drink, by a pretty Quantity at a 

 time. Selladine fimply of it felf, or Rue fimply of it lelf, boiled in 

 Beer or Ale, and as much Brimftone as a Wabmt, is an excellent Drench 

 for any long taken Surfeit. Garlick and Houfleek beaten together in a 

 Mortar, and then boiled in Beer or Ale from a Pottle to a Quart, then 

 mixt with Liquorifh, Annifeeds, and Sugar-candy, and a pretty Quan- 

 tity of Sallet-Oil, is an excellent Drench for any inward iicknefs, which 

 doth proceed from hot Caufes, as is the Frenzy, the Anticor, and luch 

 like. And thus much of general Drenches, and their Ufes. 



Chap. CV. How to make the Towder called Diapente. 



TH I S Word Diafente is as much as to fay, Compofition of five 

 Simples; for the Receipt is thus compounded : Take of Gentian, 

 of Ariftolochia, of Bay-berries, of Myrrh, and of theihavings of Ivo- 

 ry, of each a like Quantity, beat theni into very fine Powder, and then 

 fearfe it. This Powder is praifed to be a prefervative or Medicine 

 againft all inward Difeafes : And therefore I would wiih every Farrier, 

 and all fuch as are the Makers of good Horfes never to be without it. 



Chap. CVI. A mofi Famous Recei-pt, which is both a jinguUr Drench an A 

 fingulat Ointment^ called of the Italians Accopum. 



TA K E of Euforbium half an Ounce, of Caftoreum one Ounce 

 of Adraces half a quarter of a pound, Bedellium half an Ounce 

 an half a quarter, of Pepper a quarter of a Pound, Fox-Greafe half 

 an Ounce, Opoponax one Ounce, Laferpitium, three quarters of an 

 Ounce, Amoniacum half a quarter of apound, Pige©n's-dung as much, 

 Galbanum half an Ounce, Nitrum one Ounce one quarter, Spuma JSIi- 

 trum three quarters of an Ounce, Laudanum a full quarter of a pound, 

 Perethrum and Bay-berries, of each three quarters of an Ounce, Carda- 

 mum two Ounces, Seed of Rue, half a quarter of a Pound, feed of 

 Agnus Caftus one Ounce, Parfley half an Ounce, died Roots o^ Irc^AS, or 

 Fiower-de Luce, one Ounce one quarter. Hyffopand Carpobalfamuii a 



quarter 



