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from the matter being locked up, and not find- 

 ing a free courfe, is half an ounce of the dried 

 leaves of the herb afara hacca, white hellebore 

 one drachm ; powder fine, and keep it corked 

 up. Blow a fmall quantity of this fnuff through 

 a quill, up the noRrils, two or three times a day. 

 The univerfal concuflion occahoned by the aft 

 offneczing, has confiderable eflfe6l in opening 

 obftruftions, and is ufually fuccecded by a fa- 

 vourable glow. 



The above method I have always found fuc- 

 cefsful, in cafes of no higher confequence than 

 thofe defcribed ; and the medicines recom- 

 mended of equal efficacy with thofe of greater 

 expence, or confifting of more numerous arti- 

 cle."^. It is neceffary to give a caution againfl 

 impatience, and ngainfl the hazard of a relapfe, 

 from putting the horfe to work before the fun- 

 ning at the nofe has ceafed, and his appetite is 

 je-eilablifhed; a part of the morbid matter being 

 left in the vellels may be trahflated to fome 

 bowel, whence it may be impoffible afterwards 

 to diflodge it. If the difcharge has been con- 

 fiderable, the horfe muff have fwal lowed much 

 of it with his meat ; on that account, and for 

 the fake of cleanfing the habit of any relic of 

 the difeafe, give, a few days after he (hall have 

 recovered of the catarrh, an aloetic purge ; or a 

 mercurial one, if a groffnefs and foulnefs of body 

 (liould require it. 



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