60 THE FARCY. 



Recipe — Bracing and strengthening Drink. 



the first dose, nothing can be more eifectual than 

 the above drink in checking the effects of mercu- 

 rials, and therefore it may be given at all times, 

 when that article exceeds its proper bounds. It 

 sometimes happens, that persons of skill SLndJiidg' 

 ment are not called in to render their assistance 

 before the horse is reduced to a state that is nearly 

 past recoveri/. When this is the case, let him 

 have the following drink. 



(RECIPE, No. 37.) 



Bracing and strengthening Drink, 



Take — Peruvian bark, carraway seeds, and ginger, of 

 each half an ounce, in powder ; 



Nitre, two drachms; 



Prepared steel, one ounce; 



Oil of vitriol, thirty drops: 



To be given in a quart of the decoction (No. 

 S5, p. 58), new-milk warm. 



This drink must be repeated every other day 

 for three or four times ; after which give him the 



