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Hccipe — A Clyster. 



Let the horse be walked about in hand, and 

 sometimes trotted for fifteen or twen-ty minutes ; 

 and if sosjie evacuation in that time is rK)t ob- 

 tained, recourse must be had to the follQwing 

 cooling and opening clyster. 



(RECIPE, No. 9.) 

 Cluster, 



Take — Mutton broth, one quart ; 



Glauber's salts, four ounces ; 

 Treacle, four ounces ; 

 Sweet oil, half a pint ; 



Dissolve the salts and treacle in the broth, 

 then add to them the oil. 



Before the clyster is given, a small hand should 

 be dipped in or rubbed with the same, and passed 

 up his fundament, to bring away the hardened 

 dung, which is frequently the qhief cause of his 

 swelling. The clyster should be administered 

 with a pipe ten or twelve inches long, and a 

 strong bladder fixed at one end thereof; the li-t 



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