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dium, to be given every three or four hours. 

 The horfe contmuing to purge, and to eje6l 

 even the very mucus and lining of his bowels 

 (an extremity which I have witnefTed fuffi- 

 ciently often) the foregoing remedies mull be 

 perfevered in, with the additional help of re- 

 llringent and nutritive glyfters. 



The RESTRiNGENT CLYSTER. Either pome- 

 granate or oak bark two ounces ; red rofes, 

 green or dry, a handful or two ; baluftines half 

 an ounce ; boil in two quarts of water to one, 

 pour off clear, and diffolve in the deco6lion 

 four ounces diafcordium. To be repeated. Or, 

 The Starch Glyster, from Mr. Clarke, 

 Starch jelly, or infulion of linfeed, one pint ; 

 liquid laudanum one ounce, or two table-fpoon- 

 fuls ; if inflammation be apprehended, fubfli- 

 tute for the laudanum, twenty or thirty grains 

 opium, well rubbed and diffolved : I think the 

 quantity (one pint) rather two fmall. Broths 

 arC' ufed in this cafe, and flour or rice milk, 

 drained, but oils are too relaxing ; yet, the 

 coats of the inteflines being abraded, Bartlet 

 recommends mutton fuet boiled in milk, both 

 as a glyfler and drench, one pint every three 

 hours. Suet, four pounds to one quart milk. 

 Should the cafe have been fo dangerous that 

 the horfe remain weak, and a reftorative courfe 

 be required ; perfevere in the following a few 

 weeks. Loofe ftable, ufe of a field or yard by 



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