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and put them into five pints mint water, adding 

 diafcordium, one ounce ; boil to three pints; 

 drain, and add good old Port half a pint, or 

 ilrong beer, fweeten with treacle. In cafe of 

 much pain and twitching in the bowels, two 

 fpoonfuls oF laudanum may be added. 



The diafcordium, or fpecies of fcordium, is 

 compofed of fuch a variety of cordial, aroma- 

 tic, and alirinsent ingredients, that it faves 

 trouble, and is of equal efficacy with the mode 

 of prefcribing a number of various articles of 

 {imilar intent : it may be given in balls com- 

 pounded with prepared chalk and fyrup of pop- 

 pies. Mafhes of m.alt and rice mixed, fhould 

 be allowed, water in fmall quantities at a time, 

 and mixed with rice gruel, or folution of gum 

 arabic. 



I have not heard that horfes are fubje6l to 

 dyfenteries, but in cafe of a flux of blood with 

 the excrement, Bartlet prefcribes the following 

 drink. Diafcordium and French bole, one 

 ounce each ; Ipecacuhan powdered, two 

 drachms ; opium half a drachm ; diffolve in a 

 pint of warm ale, or' Port and water, and give 

 it twice a day. Perhaps it would be better to 

 begin with half the quantity of diafcordium. 

 In cafe of a lientery, or voiding chyle with 

 thie excrement, or the aliment unchanged, 

 bark and bitters (fee Index) muft be brought 

 forward in aid of the other medicines. Or. 



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