500 FOUNDER IN THE FIET. 



Recipe — Purging Drink, and further Instructions. 



Castile soap, and aromatic confection, of each 

 two drachms : 



Make them into a ball with syrup of buck- 

 thorn. 



This ball must be given in the evening, and the 

 purging drink (No. 57, p. 90) early next morn- 

 ing ; or the following purging drink may be given 

 in its stead. 



(RECIPE, No. 182.) 



Take — Barbadoes aloes, four drachms ; 

 Electuary of senna, two ounces; 

 Epsom sails, two ounces ; 

 Nitre, one ounce ; 

 Tincture of opium, two drachms : 

 Mix, and dissolve in a quart of thin gruel. 



This last purging drink will answer the purpose 

 as well as (No. bl, p. 90), and be considerably 

 less expensive. The horse must be treated in the 

 same manner as for other physic, that is to say, 

 with warm water, and mashes of scalded bran and 

 oats, two or three tiuies a day. After the physic 



