OR DIARRHEA. 425 



The following Infusion, from Bracken. Take 

 zedoary and gentian half an ounce each ; 

 orange peel, and Winter's bark, one ounce 

 each ; fine nnyrrh in powder, half an ounce ; 

 flowers of chamomile and lefler centaury, each 

 half a hanv-iful ; mace and cloves two drachms 

 each. Beat all grofsly together, and infufe 

 two days in a gallon of good Port, or flrong 

 beer, cold. Dofe, one pint every morning, 

 milk-warm, adding two ounces fyrup of dried 

 rofes to every dofe, 



MOLTEN-GREASE, OR BODY FOUNDER. 



This is a colliquation or general melting of 

 the adeps ox fatty fubftance of the body, great 

 part of which is abforbed, and thrown upon 

 the blood, and upon the inteftines, whence it 

 is voided with the excrement. The horfe 

 muft needs, be fubjeft to this malady in a great- 

 er degree than mod other animals, from his 

 natural propenfity to acquire fat in a fliort 

 time, whence Dr. Anderfon is inclined to prefer 

 horfe-flefli to beef for the fliambles. This 

 difeafe has ever been more frequent upon the 

 continent than with us, and it may eafdy be 

 difcovered from Bracken's writing, that he had 

 never feen it. I have^ repeatedly fceii it, but 

 not in any very dangrerous form. The blood 

 of a horfe taken up- from grafs will not only 

 have a greafy pellicle or flvin upon it, but will 



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