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hours. If the additional aid of a glyfter fhould 

 be needed, ufe the following ; thin water gruel 

 three quarts, fweetened with fix ounces coarfe 

 fugar, and well mixed with fix ounces falad, or 

 hnfeed oil : if eafily to be procured, inftead 

 of water-gruel, make ufe of a decoftion of mal- 

 lows, pellitory, mercury, chamomile, or fuch as 

 can be obtained, each a large handful, with 

 bay-berries and fweet fennel-feeds, each one 

 ounce, in a gallon of w^ater, boiled to three 

 quarts. As the horfe recovers, give a few 

 malt maflies. 



In cafe of super-purgation, or excefTive 

 ■working of the phyfic, the very common con- 

 fequence of the ufe of plantation aloes, or a 

 too powerful mercurial dofe, give the follow- 

 ino-, a quart at a time, with the horn, in the 

 courfe of the day : fimmer gum Arabic and 

 Tracracanth, each four ounces ; juniper berries 

 and carraway feeds, bruifed, three ounces; 

 gino-er half an ounce, in five quarts of water, 

 until the gum ihall be diffolved. Gruel made 

 of boiled rice is excellent in this intention, 

 given either with -the horn or in the horfes 

 drink, and the rice by way of maOi. Or, cor- 

 dial ball in warm ale. Or, prepare a deco61ion 

 of camomile, w^orm-wood, frefh annifeeds, and 

 faffron ; to three quarters of a pint of this, 

 warm, add a pint of fine old Port wine, in 



which has been diffolved one ounce diafcor- 



dium. 



