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infufe in two quarts of boiling water 

 clofe covered for two hours, drain off, 

 and add half a pint of diftilled vi- 

 negar, four ounces of fpirit of wine, 

 wherein half an ounce of camphor is 

 dilTolved, and two ounces of mithri- 

 date or Venice treacle ; give a pint of 

 this drink every four, fix, or eight 

 hours. 



A more fimple drink and perhaps full 

 as efficacious may be thus prepared. 



TAKE camphor one dram diflblved The cam^ 

 in redluied fpirit of wine one ounce, P^.^r 

 then gradually pour on a pint of di- ^'^^'^'^ 

 Hilled vinegar warmed, and give for 

 two dofes. The quantity of camphor 

 may be increafed. 



Should the horfe be coflive, recourfe Obferva- 

 muft be had to glyfters, or the opening tioa. 

 drink : fhould he purge, take care not 

 to fupprefs it, if moderate ; but if, by- 

 continuance, the horfe grows feeble, add 

 djafcordium to his drinks, inftead of the 

 mithridate •, if it increafes, give more po- 

 tent remedies. 



Let it be remembered, that camphor 

 is a very powerful and effedlual medicine, 

 in thefe kirrds of putrid fevers j being 



both 



