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No. 3. A POULTICE AGAINST GHEASE. [See 



GREASE.] 

 No. 4. A POULTICE AGAINST GANGRENE. 



Linseed meal, or flour, any quantity: mix with 

 boiling water, and fepnent with a table spoonful of 

 yeast; and, as it rises, put in an ounce of oil of 

 turpentine. 



POWDERS. 



Powders are medicines prepared in a dry pulve- 

 rized form, and are hence convenient for carriage 

 and package. They are very convenient likewise to 

 administer, because tliey may be made into either a 

 drink, or a ball ; or they may be mixed with food, 

 if not very nauseous. Powders, however, wlien com- 

 posed of any thing very volatile, are apt to spoil: 

 they should, therefore, in these cases, be kept very 

 dry and close. In my prepared m.edicine arrange- 

 ment, I have compounded as powders only such ar^ 

 tides as will readily preserve themselves, v.ithout 

 any particular precaution. I have com.pounded into 

 powders some articles, because then it is optional 

 with the giver what form he will chuse to give thera 

 in, «s some horses will not readily take balls, and 

 many grooms and ostlers cannot give them ; but 

 most horses will take, and most persons can give, a 

 drink : sometimes, however, even this trouble may be 

 avoided, for the powders sprinkled with the food will 

 be readily eaten. Of this kind are the 

 Alterative Condition Pow^dees [page IS]. 

 Worm Powders [page 19]. 

 Mild Diuretic Powders [page 20]; and 

 Cough and Fever Powders [page 19I. 



