SURFEITS AND UIDEBOUNU. 6? 



Recipe — Alterative Balls. 



horse drinking largely of cold water when the 

 body has been unusually warm. Bleeding, or a 

 gentle purge, will be found to remove, and effec- 

 tually cure this kind of surfeit. Some have scabs 

 all over their limbs and bodies, sometimes moist 

 and sometimes dry, attended with heat and in- 

 flammation, and the humours are so sharp and ir* 

 fitating at times, that they chafe' themselves raw 

 in many places. Others have flying pains and 

 lameness, resembling the rheumatism or gout 



In the cure of these complaints, it will first be 

 necessary to give him a dose or two of mercurial 

 .physic, if he be in condition, and able to undergo 

 it: afterwards he may have the following balls, 

 which will gently open his bowels^ purify and 

 sweeten his blood, and put him in a thriving 

 state. 



(RECIPE, Na. 42.) 



Alterative Balls. 



Take— Crocus of antimony, Venice soap, nitre, iiour 



