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Laxative clyster, add to the above 

 eight ounces Glauber's falts. Or, an infufion 

 of two ounces fenna in boiling water, and four 

 ounces fyrup of buckthorn. Or, Bitter ap- 

 ple half an ounce, bayberries and anifeeds 

 bruifed, one handful each ; fait of tartar half 

 an ounce, fyrup of buckthorn four ounces. 

 The bitter apple, berries and feed, (liould be 

 boiled a quarter of an hour. Or, inflead of 

 the bitter apple, an ounce or two tindure of 

 jalap. 



Nutritive Clyster. Thick water gruel. 

 Or, broths made of fheep's head, trotters, or 

 the like, but not too fat. Milk pottage. Rice- 

 milk ftrained, with warm aromatic feeds if 

 ne celTary. 



Diuretic clysters. Soap four ounces 

 difTolved in two quarts of w^arm water, fait one 

 handful. Or, one ounce Caflile foap, two 

 quarts water, Venice turpentine two ounces, 

 well beat with the yolks of two eggs. Or, in 

 a ftrangury, to be repeated : Venice turpen- 

 tine from two to four ounces, beat up with 

 eggs, add by degrees, two quarts decodion of 

 marfh mallows, pardey and ground ivy, or 

 either, in which from two to four ounces nitre 

 has been diffolved ; oil half-a-pint to one pint, 

 and occafionally one ounce Bates's anodyne 

 balfam. 



The cordial ball was firfl: introduced 



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