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medicine pafles too quickly; their frequency 

 debilitates the flomach, and depreffes the fpi- 

 rits ; if the powder be grofs, inftead of entering 

 the ]a6leals and pafling thence into the blood, 

 it is carried through the inteftines unchanged, 

 I have feen rhubarb eje61ed from the bowels of 

 an infant, the fecond or third day, in the fame 

 crude (late as when given. 



No. 1. Mild Alterative. Flower of 

 brimftone, and cremor tartar, equal quantities ; 

 with thefe mix canella alba, a drachm of the 

 latter to an ounce. The dofe, half an ounce to 

 one ounce twice a day, either given in a ball 

 with treacle, on an empty ftomach (the mod 

 effe6lual way) or mixed with the corn, being 

 firft of all well ftirred into a little wetted bran. 



No. 2. Add gum guiacum, finely powdered, 

 and turmeric, equal quantities with the above. 

 Mix well. This fucceeds well with delicate 

 conftitutions. 



No. 3, Pound the fined antimony, that is, 

 large, clear, and (hining, like poliOied fteel, to 

 an impalpable powder, mix with equal quantity 

 of powdered guiacum. Six drachms to one 

 ounce per day. 



No. 4. Antimonial ^thiops, four to fix 

 drachms every night, for a fortnight, then omit 

 a week, afterwards repeat for another fortnight. 

 It is made as follows : the befi: antimony as be- 

 fore, twelve ounces ; crude mercury, fixteen 



X 2 ounces ; 



