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than aloes, and their operation will be both augmented and pro- 

 longed by the addition of calomel. The two ingredients may be 

 exhibited either in ball or drench : the latter, supposing it can be 

 administered, being perhaps the preferable mode of exhibition, on 

 account of the shorter space of time in which it is likely to traverse 

 the alimentary canal. 



The Drench. 

 Take of 



Decoction of Aloes* Oj 



Calomel 3iss 



Stir the calomel into the decoction 

 made warm over the fire. 



The Ball. 

 Take of 



Purging Mass Jiss 



Calomel 3jss 



Mix, and form a ball. 



Or about a drachm of the powder of croton seeds may be made into 

 a ball, and given in lieu of either of the above prescriptions. 



Whatever be the medicine or formula administered, it is good 

 practice to follow the first dose up, after an interval of twelve or 

 eighteen hours, with diminished doses of the same at interspaces 

 of six or twelve hours, according to circumstances ; there being 

 little cause for apprehension, in such cases as these, of super- 

 purgation. 



Enemata, containing aloes, should also be injected, as early as 

 the operation can be performed, after blood-letting and giving the 

 medicine; and again repeated about the time that the cathartic 

 may be expected to take effect. Should the first exhausting blood- 

 letting be attended with some relaxation or remission of the 

 symptoms, no time need be lost in closely trimming the hair off the 

 forehead, occiput and temples, and applying to those parts the 

 strongest preparation of blistering ointment. 



In cases in which the legs are deadly cold, and the animal is in 

 that lethargic state that no impression can be made upon them by 

 friction or bandages, however warm in their nature, the best appli- 

 cation is a mustard embrocation, which, to give it additional 

 efficacy, may be made up with oil of turpentine. 



Should the first large abstraction of blood not be followed by any 

 or that relief which we could desire, as soon as the pulse informs 



* For the formula for the decoction, see vol. i, page 113. 



