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humours^ than as they ftimulate more or 

 lefs. 



We fliall therefore take this opportu- Nitre re- 

 nity of recommending^ fome alterative ^°"^- 



T • J • I r 11 mended as 



medicines, which are not lo generally ^^ aj^gj-a- 

 known as ihey ought to be •, and that \\^q^ 

 too on the fared grounds, a proper ex- 

 perience of their good effecls in repeated 

 trials. The firft then is nitre, or purified 

 falt-petre, which has long been in great 

 efteem, and perhaps is more to be de- 

 pended on in all inflammatory fevers 

 than any other medicine whatever: but 

 befides this extenfive power of allaying 

 inflammatory diforders, it is now offered 

 as a remedy, taken in proper quantities, 

 as an alterative for forfeits, molten-greafe, 

 hide-bound, greafe-heals, (^c. And, as 

 it has been known to fucceed even in 

 the cure of the farcy, what other dif- 

 tempers in horfes, arifing from vitiated 

 fluids, may it not be tried on, with a 

 flrong probability of fuccefs ? "Jliis greac 

 advantage will arife from the ufe of this 

 medicine over mod others, that, as its 

 operation is chiefly by urine, it requires 

 no confinement or cloathing; but the 

 horfe may be v/orked moderately through- 

 out the whole courfe. This medicine 

 has been found equally efficacious (by 



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