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Take away Grft a moderate quantity The cure. 

 of blood ; then give him two drams of 

 calomel, mixed up with an ounce of dia- 

 pente, for two nights; and the next 

 morning a purging ball. Keep him well 

 cloathed and littered, and feed him with 

 fcalded bran and warm water. 



Once in eight or ten days this purge 

 may be repeated^ with one mercurial 

 ball only, given over-night. 



The following balls may then be takeni 

 one every day, about the fize of a pul- 

 let's egg, the horfe fafting two hours 

 afterwards •, and (hould be continued 

 two months, or longer, to be of real 

 fervice* 



TAKE native cinnabar, or cinna- Balls for 

 bar of antimony, half a pound ; an obfti- 

 gum guaiacum four ounces •, myrrh, "^^^ '^^Y 

 and gum Ammoniac, of each two ^°"2^' 

 ounces ; Venice foap half a pound : 

 the cinnabar muft be finely levi- 

 gated, as before obferved, and the 

 whole mixed up with honey, or 

 oxymel fquills. 



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