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of its operation, is a more potent vermifuge 

 than the fuccotrine ; it is groundlefs, as I know 

 by experience ; and by the opinion of one, 

 whofe experience to mine, in this particular 

 cafe, muft have been in the proportion of one 

 hundred to five, at leaft; I mean Gibfon. Ri- 

 verius fays, that oil will fufFocate all kinds of 

 worms ; if fo, it furely deferves notice as an an- 

 thelmintic. 



Oil Glyster. Prepare a flrong deco6lion, 

 or infufion in boiling water, of tobacco, favin, 

 wormwood, rue, garlic, and coralline, if the 

 latter can be procured ; to one pint of this, add 

 a pint of linfeed oil, and injeft the mixture, 

 blood warm, the laft thing at night. Repeat it 

 or not, at difcretion, at two o'clock next day ; 

 and at night give the horfe two drachms calo- 

 mel, in very fine powder, made up with cordial 

 ball, or for want of that with powdered ani- 

 feeds, and a little ginger and oil ; or with 

 diapente. In the morning give a purge with 

 fine aloes, jalap, and myrrh, balled up with 

 hard foap, and reftified oil of amber ; mild or 

 flrong according to circumftances, particularly 

 with relation to the effefts of the glyfters and 

 the mercury. This phyfic being repeated every 

 ten days, with the glyfters intermediately at 

 pleafure, the courfe will eradicate and fweep 

 away the whole generation of worms, together 

 with that colledion of foul materials of which 



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