PLEURISY, &C. 119 



Recipe — Fever Ball. 



In the first place, if the horse be strong, let him 

 be bled to the quantity of three or four quarts, or 

 more, if he is able to bear it ; but if he be lean and 

 emaciated, a smaller quantity must be taken ; 

 secondly, it will be necessary to unload the intes- 

 tines with the following medicines. 



(RECIPE, No. 78.) 

 Fexer Ball, 



Take — White antiraonial powder, two drachms; 

 Prepared kali, half an ounce ; 

 Castile soap, two drachms ; 

 Aromatic confection, half an ounce: 

 Beat them into a, ball. 



This ball must be given to the horse as »oon as 

 it can be prepared, after he has been bled ; about 

 six hours after, give him the purging drink (No. 

 57, p. 90), and repeat it every night and morning 

 until a passage is obtained, or the bowels are suf- 

 ficiently opened. If the symptoms do not disa p- 

 pear when the purgative medicines begin to ope- 



