Of the FARCIN or FARCY. 1S5 



thus, from four to eight ounces of lapis the cure 

 calaminaris, to which two ounces of tutty of the 

 finely powdered is added, with other me- ^^^^7* 

 tallic fubftances, have been given. Some 

 give a pound of barrel foap boiled in dale 

 beer, with favin, rue, and other herbs ' 

 of that intention. Others go , yet fur- 

 ther, being determined to kill or cure, 

 by giving drinks prepared with green 

 vitriol, roach-allum, Roman vitriol, oil 

 of vitriol boiled in chamber- lye, with 

 hemp-feed, hemlock and common fait. 

 Thofe who ufe nothing but the decodti- 

 ons or juices of herbs, fuch as wormwood, 

 rue, or elder particularly, ftand a much 

 better chance for a cure, if given in 

 time-, but when the diftemper is grown 

 inveterate, nothing comes in competi- 

 tion with mercurial and antimonial medi- 

 cines. 



The following balls are proper in every 

 flate of the farcy, and when the diftem- 

 per has been in its infancy, before the 

 ikin was much defaced, has often cured 

 it in a week or two, by giving them only 

 once or twice a day : but in an old farcy 

 they fhould be given for two or three 

 months together, ' 



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