go Of ah Apoplexy, of 



aftel* his feeds, fo as to dart ^nd fly 3t 

 everything. Thefe cafes feldom admit 

 of a perfect recovery -, and when horfes 

 fall down fuddenly and work violently 

 at their flanks, without any ability to 

 rife after a plentiful bleeding, they feldom 

 recover. 



The cure. All that can be done is to empty the 

 veflTels as fpeedily as pofiible, by ftriking 

 the veins in feveral parts at once, bleed- 

 ing to four or five quarts, and to raife 

 up the horfes's head and fhoulders, fup- 

 porting them with plenty of flraw. If 

 he furvives the fit, cut feveral rowels; 

 giue him, night and morning, glyfters 

 prepared with a ftrong deco6lion of fcna 

 and fait, or the purging glyfter men- 

 tioned in the dircdions -, blow once a 

 day up his noftrils a dram of powder 

 of afarabacca, which will promote a great 

 difcharge, afterwards two or three aloetic 

 purges Ihoud be given; and to fecure 

 him from a relapfe, by attenuating and 

 thinning his blood, give him an ounce 

 of equal parts of antimony arid crocus 

 metallorum for a month ; or which is 

 preferable, the fame quantity of cinnabar 

 of antimony and gum guaicum. 



If 



