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TAKE pomegranate bark, or oak A reftrin- 

 bark, two ounces, red rofe leaves, S-"^ g^y^- 

 frefli or dry, a handful, balauilines an ^^^* 

 ounce j boil in two quarts of water, 

 till one is near confumed ; pour off 



, and difTolve in it four ounces of diaf- 

 cordium ; to v/hich may be added 

 a pint of Port wine. 



This will anfwer in all common cafes, 

 where reftringents are neceffary, but 

 fhould never be given in larger quanti- 

 ties ', for the longer glyfters of this kind 

 l.ie in the bowels, the more eilicacious they 

 are. 



^ C H A P. III. 

 Of COLDS. 



S the fource of the generality of Cold the 

 _ ^ fevers, coughs, and many other firft fource 

 diforders, that both mien and horfes are^^"^°^^ 

 fubjedl to, arife originally from taking 

 cokl ; I have made that diforder the fub- 

 jedl of my hrft ciiapter, as introdu6l6ry 

 to the fjbfequent ones, to Fevers , Pleurijy^^ 

 Cov.ghsy &c.- 



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