358 ON GLANDERS. 



fuccefs at too early a period. As to the exter- 

 nal application, La Fosse fhould be punc- 

 tually followed, and the mercurials and anti- 

 monials given in moderate dofes, and long 

 continued, with the woods, gums, &c. On the 

 profpeft of the glanderous virus being fubdued, 

 a pretty long courfe of corroborants, among 

 which equal quantities of oak- bark, and the 

 yellow Peruvian bark, with fleel, are moft to be 

 depended on, (hould conclude the medical part. 

 A long run at grafs afterwards, and if the 

 patient be a mare, the horfe. 



A Chalybeate Beer, may be made as 

 follows : Steel filings, fixteen ounces ; cinna- 

 mon and mace, each two ounces ; gentian root 

 bruifed, or quafiia, four ounces ; anifeeds bruifed, 

 three ounces. Infufe in one gallon fine, clear* 

 old, ftrong beer for a month, flopped clofe, 

 fhaking often, then ftrain. Give half a pint for 

 a dofe, in a pint of cold water, once or twice a 

 day, upon an empty fl:omach, leaving the horfe 

 an hour or two to his repofe. I have taken 

 this from the Vinum Chalybeatum of Boerhaave, 

 fubftituting old beer, which I have reafon to 

 believe a good menfl:ruum for the fleel, inflead 

 of Rhenifh wine ; and adding one of the befl 

 bitters. Should cinnamon and mace be thought 

 too expenfive, Jamaica pepper, or allfpice, 

 w^ould be a cheap and proper fubflitute. It 

 was the opinion of that great man, that no 



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