130 JAUNDICE. 



Recipe — Purging Ball. 



horses, become very troublesome to cure : but if it 

 be recent, and in young horses, the cure, in general, 

 may speedily be performed, if the following di- 

 rections be pursued. First, let the horse be bled 

 to the quantity of three or four quarts, according 

 to size and strength ; and then give him the fol- 

 lowing purge. 



(RECIPE, No. 83.) 



Purging Ball, 



Take — Barbadoes aloes, from six to eight drachms ^ 



"White ahtimonial powder, and Castile soap, 



of each two drachms ; 

 Rhubarb, in powder, and prepared kalij of 



each half an ounce ; 

 Mix, and beat them into a ball, with a suffi- 

 cient quantity of syrup of buckthorn. 



The horse should have a couple of mashes the 

 day before this ball is given, by way of prepara- 

 tion ; and the ball should be given fasting the 

 morning following: let him fast for two hours 



