392 ON PLEURISY, &C. 



Bartlet recommends a ftrong deco6lion of it as 

 a fpecific. 



Take fpermaceii, one ounce, rub with the 

 yolk of an egg ; add one ounce Venice tur- 

 pentine, mix ; then take one ounce nitre pow- 

 dered ; and fugar of lead two drachms ; faf- 

 fron half a drachm ; chymical oil of anifeeds 

 half a fpoonful. Make too balls for one dofe, 

 with honey or fyrup of poppies, rolling them 

 in liquorice powder. This from Gibfon ; but 

 I think the fugar of lead ought by all means to 

 be omitted, and it feems to be the only inftance 

 of temerarious pra6lice in that cautious pre- 

 fcriber. The balls to be given tv/o or three 

 times a day, wafhed down with the follov;ing 

 drink : Coltsfoot, fcabious, and ground-ivy, of 

 each a large handful ; a handful of barley ; 

 figs, half a pound ; garlic, two ounces ; horfe- 

 radifli, and affafoetida, half an ounce each ; 

 faffron two drachms. Boil in two quarts water, 

 in a clofe veffel half an hour; pour off clear, 

 and add one pint linfeed oil, and honey one 

 pound. 



The horfe continuing hot and reftlefs, purg- 

 ing glyflers may be neceffary, with an addition 

 to the deco6lion, of caftor and gum traga- 

 canth, half an ounce each. Light open diet ; 

 hot malhes with brimftone and honey ; fcalded 

 barley. If the horfe be flrong and found, finifh 



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