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Recipe — A Purging Drink. 



purifying balls ( No. 28, p. 49. ) as there directed. 

 This method of treatment will be the only means 

 of restoring the animal from a low debilitated 

 state to a better condition and habit of body. At 

 the commencement this disease may, for the most 

 part, be carried off by giving the mercurial ball 

 (No. 25, p. 47. ), and working it off with the fol- 

 lowing purging drink. 



(RECIPE, No. 38.) 

 A Purging Drink. 



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Take — Barbadoes aloes, seven drachms ; 

 Cream of tartar, one ounce ; 

 Ginger, nitre, and aniseed, of each half aa 



ounce, in powder : 

 Dissolve and give them in a pint and a half of 

 warm ^e. 



This drink must be given in the morning fasting ; 

 and the horse must eat nothing for two hours after ; 

 let him then have a mash of scalded bran and 

 oats, and warm water, twice a day ; if the horse 



