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myrrh and madder, two drachms each ; old 

 Red Port wine half a pint, fweeten with treacle, 

 and give it the horfe blood warm, every four 

 hours. On amendment of the putrid fymp- 

 toms, this medicine muft be exchanged for 

 thofe of a cooling diuretic quality ; the fol- 

 lowing (lands highly recommended by Ofmer 

 — Crude fal ammoniac and nitre, each one 

 ounce ; Caftile foap half an ounce ; camphor 

 rubbed with a little cold-drawn linfeed oil, 

 two drachms ; mix with mucilage of gum, for 

 one ball or two, and give the dofe three times a 

 day. The (late of the pulfe muft determine 

 the propriety of bleeding at all, or at what 

 period of the difeafe. Should a critical ab- 

 fcefs or eruptions appear, all poflible means 

 (hould be ufed to encourage thefe efforts of 

 nature ; if not, a number of rowels ought to be 

 inferted in the breaft and belly of the horfe. 

 In preference to rowels in the common form, 

 . it was the praftice of the above-named author, 

 to make a number of incilions in any part of 

 the (kin, where loofe ; to feparate the fkin from 

 the flefh with the finger, and moderately fill the 

 cavity with tow, dipped in digeftive ointment, 

 every day ; firft taking out the former dreffmg. 

 Such is the fpeedieft method of bringing on a 

 difcharge, in more abundance, with lefs inflam- 

 mation, and which may be continued for any 

 lengtho 



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