210 Of Alterative Medicines. 



Purging • The great inconveniences that attend 

 Tiver"'' ^^^^ P^i-gifig of horfes in the ufual man- 

 in fmall "er^ make the following method of giv- 

 quantides ing thofe kind of medicines eligible in 

 are alfo niofb cafes ; for though their operation 

 good alte- j^y ^\^^ bowels is thereby greatly klTened, 

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yet the other iecretions are more advan- 



tageouOy increafed ; for by giving them 

 in fmall quantities, or combined with al- 

 teratives adapted to the cafe, they pafs 

 into the blood, and (as has been before 

 explained) adl more powerfully, by break- 

 ing the cohefions of the vifcid fluids, 

 cleanfing the finer vefTels, where proba- 

 bly obilrudlions are formed, than when 

 they adl more fenfibly on the bovv^els. 



Thus in furfeits, flying lameneflfes, ^c. 

 give the following mafs divided into eight 

 balls •, one may be taken twice or thrice 

 a week, according to their operation. 



An altera- TAKE lenitive elefluary eight ounces, 

 live purge jalap and fcammony powdered, of 

 each one ounce ; cinnabar, and gum 

 guaiacum, of each two ounces; cam- 

 phor half an ounce, fyrup of buck- 

 thorn a fufficient quantity to form 

 them. 



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