ipo OJ the FARCIN or FARCY. 



The alte- ^^ A K E of native cinnabar, or cin- 

 rative nabar of antimony^ eight ounces ; 



*^^- . long birthwort and gum guaiacum 



powdered of each four ounces; 

 make into a parte with honey, and 

 form into balls of the iize of a large 

 walnut, and roll them in liquorice 

 pOiWder. 



Mercuri- The tcdioufnefs of this courfe has en- 

 alsgene- couragq^ the giving of mercurials, and 

 rally fac- indeed where they are diredled with fkill, 

 when ^^^y "^^^ ^^ attended with fu cce fs ; 

 gj'v^en ^^^ ftronger preparations, as the red and 

 wiih feill. white precipitates, and turbith, being com- 

 bined with fharp faline parts, may be 

 hazardous aud injurious ; but the latter 

 given in fmall quantities have been found 

 very fuccefsful in fuch kind of inveterate 

 diforders. Mr. Gibfon fays, he has given 

 it to a dram at a dofe, where the limbs 

 have been greatly fwelled; that in forty- 

 eight hours the fores were all dried up, 

 and the limbs reduced : but that it made 

 the horfe fo violently fick for feveral days, 

 and fcoured him to fuch a degree, that it 

 could not be repeated. 



Turbith One would ha)*e thought that the fuc- 



(hould be cefs attending this medicine fo fuddenly, 



given m tnight have encouracred Gibfon to have 



*"*'• ° . - made 



