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 The cure of jaundice, when there is coftivenefs, 

 will confift in giving three dofes of 



Strong Mercurial Physic [page 24] ; but 

 when the bowels are already loofe, the following 

 will be preferable, given every morning : 

 Calomel, one dram. 

 Opium, half a dram. 



Powder of chamomile flowers, and powder of 

 gentian, of each two drams. 



Make into a ball with honey. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



Inflamed lungs is a very frequent difeafe among 

 horfes, and kills more of them every year than any 

 other complaint. Nothing fo much fliews the im- 

 proved Hate of farriery in this country as this dif- 

 eafe : heretofore, when a horfe died of inflammation 

 of the lungs, he was thought to have died rotten ; 

 and, therefore, during the complaint, hot fpicy cor- 

 dials were ufually given, which only haftened the 

 fatal termination. The progrefs of this difeafe is 

 commonly very quick, and in thirty-fix or forty- 

 eight hours from the attack the horfe is often dead. 

 The treatment muft, therefore, be very a6live to be 

 efficacious ; for a lefs active treatment, if it fuc- 

 ceeds, is only temporary in its fuccefs : for though 

 the horfe appears to amend from the firft violence 



