PURGATION. 287 



tlvelv, to be for one moment at a lofs on the 

 Ibbjeft. 



Should a purge not operate at a proper 

 time, either from badnefs of the drugs, or cold 

 taken, the horfe will hang down his head and 

 refufe food, appear fwelled, heave in his flanks, 

 and frequently throw up his tail without ability 

 to evacuate. In a flight cafe of this kind, give, 

 the fize of a pullets ^gg of cordial ball, in three 

 pints warm gruel, and repeat, it at night and the 

 following morning ; in the interim give falined 

 water, blood warm, made as before direfted, 

 i, e. the folution of four ounces Glauber's fa Its, 

 to a pail, or three gallons of foft water. Walk- 

 ing exercife, if fine weather, well clothed, the 

 horfe not being ridden. Or, fliould the cafe 

 be more ferious, and the horfe much fwelled or 

 griped, take balfam of Peru and capivi, of each 

 half an ounce, incorporate them with the yolk 

 of a new laid egg; camphor one drachm, dif- 

 folved in a fmall quantity of Holland's gin, or 

 other fpirit, juniper berries and annileed, pow- 

 dered, half an ounce each; unreftified oil of 

 amber two drachms ; make a ball with fyrup of 

 marfn-mallows, and roll in liquorice powder. 

 Give plenty of warm gruel and water. This 

 latl I have taken on authority, but I fliould 

 be more inclined, in the cafe, to exhibit a 

 few^ ounces of tinctura facra, or elixir pro- 

 prietatisj in warm gruel, every fix or eight 



hours. 



