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Recipe — Mercurial Ball for destroying Worms. 

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are generally found in the small intestine^. 

 They are not so common as the botts, but are 

 often more dangerous, and frequently are the 

 cause of the colic and inflammation of the 

 bowels. 



Ascaindes are found in the large intestines; 

 they keep a horse poor, but are seldom fatal. 

 Both these kinds of worms are frequently voided 

 with the dung. The treatment in all the three 

 kinds must be similar, and a cure may be effected 

 by a due attention to the application of the fol- 

 lowing medicines. 



(RECIPE, No. 99.) 



Mercurial Ball. 



Take — Calomel, assafoetida, and Castile soap, of each 

 two drachms ; 

 Worm-seed, in powder, half an ounce : 

 Beat them into a ball with syrup of buck- 

 thorn. 



Or the following. 



