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Recipe — Purifying Balls. 



the operation of the aforesaid mercurial physic. 

 The following balls will be found excellent to pu- 

 rify and cleanse the blood. 



(RECIPE, No. 28.) 



Purifying Balls* 



Take — Venice lurpeatine, and Castile soap, of each 



four ounces ; 

 Beat them well together in a mortar until 



united : 

 Then add— nitre, flour of sulphur, crude 



antimony, crocus raetallorum, and ginger, 



of each four ounces, in fine powder ; 

 Camphor, two ounces, rubbed in a mortar, 



with one ounce of spirit of wine : 

 Beat them into a proper consistency for balls, 



with honey, or treacle. 



Two ounces of this mass must be rolled into a 

 ball, and given to the horse once a day, or every 

 other day, and continued for a month, or six 

 weekS) or even longer, if required. 



This disease is deemed incurable when the 



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