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but the hair begin to flare, difcharging greafy 

 drops, the fwelHng increafe and become painful, 

 the horfe catching up his leg and refting upon 

 the toe ; the indication is, that the humours are 

 faulty, at leafh fuperabundant, and require 

 evacuants, and that the external applications 

 mull be of the more efficacious kind. It may 

 perhaps be necefTary to bleed. Give diuretics 

 immediately. I always prefer a courfe of fa- 

 lined water to any of the ufual diuretic balls, 

 and have a very good opinion of a decoftion 

 of fir-tops, in which, fweetened with honey, 

 the purging fait and cremor tartar, with the 

 addition of nitre, if you will, may be diffolved. 

 Plenty of this will make your horfe urine 

 enough to float your liable, befides fcouring 

 and unlading his bowels. How^ever, if you be 

 inviolably attached to precedent, and nothing 

 will fuit either you or your horfe, but a good 

 urine ball, take the following from our worthy 

 friend Bartlet: Yellow rofin, four ounces; fait 

 of tartar, and fal prunellse, of each two ounces ; 

 Venice foap, half a pound; oil of juniper, half 

 an ounce ; give a ball of two ounces weight 

 every morning. Or. Nitre, two ounces ; cam- 

 phor, one drachm ; ball with honey. Almoft 

 all thefe articles I have obferved to difagree 

 with horfes of delicate (lomachs, and I think 

 anifeed. Van HQlmoni'sfolamen intejiinorum, a 

 good correftor of them : or the balls may be 



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