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the fymptoms. Back>rake with a fmall hand 

 well oiled, and give the common gruel clys- 

 ter, with half a pint of oil, and a large 

 handful of fait : immediately pour down by 

 the mouth, half a pint of Holland's geneva, 

 rum or brandy, and a like quantity of fweet 

 oil mixed, or a little diluted with thin gruel, if 

 thought too ftrong ; keep the horfe on his legs, 

 and exercife him forthwith. If to be obtained 

 foon, and demanded by the exigence, add to 

 the glyfler four to fix ounces of Glauber's 

 falts. Or, of tinfture of jalap, or of fenna, 

 two ounces. Or be{l aloes in very fine pow- 

 der, half an ounce. And to the drink, three 

 or four ounces fyrup of buckthorn. Or, Elixir 

 Proprietatis, or Tin^lurafacra, Caftor oil may 

 be ufed inftead of olive. A notched onion 

 may be thrufl; up the fundament ; or an onion 

 and a piece of foap the fize of an cgg^ beat up 

 together into a foft bolus, with a pinch or two 

 of pepper ; afterv/ards a glyfi:er of black foap, 

 one ounce to a pint warm water. Should fup- 

 prelfed perfpiration thrown on the bowels be 

 among the caufes, (fee Colds) the warm feeds 

 ginger, cafl:or, and camphor, fiiould make part 

 of both the drinks and glyilers. For a large 

 cart-horfe, where wind is not the predominant 

 fymptom, and no appearance of cold, the fol- 

 lowing drink : Gin, brandy, or rum, and fweet 

 oil, one pint each, mix with the folution of fix 



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