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for an hour, and keep the decodlioa 

 upon the ingredients in a clean earth- 

 en pan for ufe. 



This is both a cheap and efficacious In what 

 medicine in alJ foulnels of the fkin, and ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ 

 very proper to be given after a courfe of ^*^^^' 

 mercurials j for it will fweeten and cor- 

 red: the blood and juices, and, by pro- 

 moting the fecretions, dry up fuperfluous 

 humidities on particular parts, as in the 

 llrangles, all glandular diforders, and old 

 running fores. Four horns full fliould be 

 given twice or thrice a day, and continued 

 " two or three months in obftinate cafes, in- 

 termitting now and then a week, that the 

 horfe may not be cloyed with continual 

 drenching. 



When horfes take drinks with great re- 

 lu6tance, powders mufl be given in their 

 feeds; thus crude antimony, or liver of 

 antimony finely powdered, may be given 

 to the quantity of half an ounce, night 

 and morning ; but in all furfeits, gum 

 guaiacum mixed with antimony is found 

 more efficacious. Thus, 



TAKE of crude antimony finely The at- 

 powdered, or, v/here it can be af- ^^•"^tive 

 forded, cinnabar of antimony, and ^°^ ^"* 

 4 gum 



