ALTERATIVE MEDICINES. 135 



Kecifie — Alterative Balls, and where necessary. 



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may be given every day, or every other day, as 

 may be judged requisite, and continued for some 

 jtime, 



(RECIPE, No. 87.) 

 Alterative Balls for the Farcy, 



fAKE — Precipitated sulphur of antimony, gum guaiar 



cum, and socotrinp aloes, of each one 



ounce, in fine powder | 

 Nitre, two ounces ; 

 Calomel, and cantharides, in powder, of each 



two drachms: 

 Mix, and make them into a mass for balls witfi 



lenitive electuary. Each ball to weigh one 



ounce and a half. 



These balls will be found useful in obstinate 

 disorders, where the blood is foul : such as th^ 

 farcy, glanders, scab, or mange, and lameness of 

 the joints, &c. for vyhich one ball may be given, 

 every other morning, for a fortnight or three weeksj 

 together, as may be thought most proper : or the 

 following may be given. 



