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difTolve in it three ounces of Glauber 

 fait, and two of cream of tartars 

 give for a dofe in the morning. 



This purge generally works before 

 night very gently, and in fevers, and all 

 inflammatory diforders, is infinitely pre- 

 ferable to any other phyfick. 



TKe pulfe Before we clofe this chapter on fevers, 

 of horfes it may be no improper hint to the curious, 

 ^°"^^ H^ ^° ^^^^ notice that a horfe's pulfe fhould 

 tof" ^ more particularly be attended to than is 

 cuftomary, as a proper eflimate may there- 

 by be made both of the degree and vio- 

 lence of the fever prefent, by obferving 

 the rapidity of the blood's motion, and 

 the force that the heart and arteries labour 

 with, to propel it round. The nigheft 

 calculation that has been made of the 

 quicknefs of the pulfe in a healthy horfe, 

 is, that it beats about forty itrokes in a 

 minute; fo that; in proportion to the in- 

 creafe above this number, the fever is 

 rifmg, and if farther increafed to above 

 fifty, the fever is very high. 



How to How often the pulfe beats in a minute 

 calculate niay eafily be difcovered by meafuring 

 t e pulfe. j.|^g j.j^^^ ^-^1^ ^ ^^p watch, or minute 



fand-glafs, while your hand is laid on 

 the horfe's nou fide, or your fingers on 



any 



