9Sf' FEVERS. 



Salutary Powders for a Fever. 



Calcined hartshorn, one ounce t mix, and 

 grind them in a mortar to a fine powder; 



Then put them in a bottle for use : two drachms 

 of these powders are a proper dose for a 

 horse. 



A dose of this powder may be given twice or 

 three times a day in a pint of warm gruel, or be 

 made into a ball with conserve of roses. If the 

 fever be violent, and the horse in a raging state, 

 half an ounce of tincture of opium may be added 

 to each dose of powders. 



The above powders are excellent for the stag- 

 gers, convulsions, and all kinds of inflammatory 

 fevers ; but, whenever these symptoms appear, a 

 more powerful medicine than the ball (No. 53, p. 

 84) can hardly be found in the whole materia mC" 

 dica. We would therefore advise it to be given in 

 diseases that assume this state. It is supposed 

 that the above powders, as well as the antimonial 

 powder, are equal to those which are held in such 



