THE FAllCY. 57 



Recipe — A Mercurial Solution. 



This drink must be given every other day, or 

 once in three days. Give it fasting in the morn- 

 ing ; and let the horse eat nothing for four hours 

 after taking it; then let him have a hot mash of 

 scalded bran and oats, and warna water. But in 

 the most obstinate farcy, where the veins are ob- 

 structed, and attended with a violent inflammatory 

 tumour, recourse must be had to more powerful 

 medicines, such as the following. 



(RECIPE, No. 34.) 



Mercurial Solution, 



Take — Corrosive sublimate, from twelve to twenty 

 grains ; 

 Spirit of wine, two ounces ; 

 Muriatic acid, two drachms ; 

 Mix them in a phial, and shake it until the 

 {Sublimate be dissolved, then give it to the 

 borse in a quart of the following decoction. 



