148 Of the Lax ajjd Scouring, ^c. 



coats of the bowels, and abate their vio- 

 lent irritations. Alfo, 



Are- TAKE foft chalk two ounces, mi- 



ftnngmg thridate or diafcordium one ounce, 



^^"'^' powder of Indian root half a dram, 



liquid laudanum fifty or fixty drops ; 

 difTolve in a pint of hartfhorn drink, 

 and add to it four ounces of cinna- 

 mon water, or red wine. Give it 

 twice % day, 



' Gum Arabic diflblved in hartfhorn 

 drink, or in common water, fhould be 

 the horfe's ufual drink. 



A necef- Jt may necefiary in this place to 

 ^^^.' ^^^^^" obferve, that thofe fcourings that fucceed 

 long continued ficknefles, fuch as farcies, 

 putrid fevers, or an inflamed flate of 

 blood, where proper bleedings have been 

 negleded, in general end fatally ; efpe- 

 cially if the dilcharge is a foetid (lime, of 

 a dirty brown colour like brine \ and the 

 fame matter runs from their nofes ; for 

 in fuch cafes the texture of the blood is 

 diflblved, and the whole mafs of fluids 

 is become putrid, and runs off through 

 thefe outlets : and as they refemble 

 the coliiquative diarrhoeas that termi- 

 nate confumptive cafes in the human 



body, 



