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after bleeding the horfe twice or thrice, if 

 full of blood, and in nefh. 



TAKE tnrbith mineral one dram, A mercu- 

 camphor half a drain, diapente half ^".-'^^^l^era- 

 an ounces make into a ball with '^^^* 

 honey. 



Give one of thefe balls every other 

 morning for a fortnight-, reft a fortnight, 

 and then repeat them in the fame man- 

 ner. During this courfe, the horfe fhould 

 be kept warm, in order to heighten the 

 perfpiration ; and particular care (houid 

 be taken that he catches no cold : let him 

 be bled once in ten days about two quarts ; 

 and thofe days the balls are omitted, take 

 him out for half an hour, if the weather 

 is fair, and when he comes in, let him be 

 well curried for an hour •, after this courfe 

 is finidied, give him a quart of hemp-feed 

 in his corn every day for a month: but 

 as the horfe's mouth will probably be fore, 

 his feed Ihould be boiled oats, barley, and 

 fcalded bran. 



As the operation of mercurials both Mercuri- 

 in men and horfes is very precarious, if alsope- 

 the qu.mtity aoove mentioned gripes the . , 

 horfe, or purges him, in (lead of the dia- on horfe« 

 pente, mix it up with two drams of phi- 

 Ionium, 



