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Proper Food to be given in the STAGGERS. 

 Let them be often fupplied with Watergruel well boiled, for 

 their common drinking, and fupport them with Maflies made 

 of Wheat Bran and a little Rye fcalded together as food, alfo 

 to indulge them two or three times a-day with a pint of Sweet 

 Milk, fweetened with Brown Sugar ; the above will affift na- 

 ture for a long time, without any other fupport. 



For a -mild, Fit of the STAGGERS. 



Take Mithridate two ounces, diffolved in a quart of fmall 

 Ale, then add Tinfture of Saffron and Camphire one ounce 

 and a half, fee page 37. Tinfture of Opium two drams, the 

 Powers of Amber two drams, and Common Treacle half a 

 pound, mixed all together for one dofe. The above will com- 

 pofe and lull him to fleep ; by being covered up very warm — 

 will bring on a ftrong fweat, then if poflible, to get him to a 

 hot horfe-mixen or dunghill, make him a bed and caft him 

 down there, and cover him with warm muck all over, except 

 his mouth and noilrils ; and encourage the fweating for four 

 hours at lead: then obferve to cool him gradually; and re- 

 member, in this, and all fuch cafes, to make ufe of Chewing 

 Balls which are to be made as follows. Take Affafoetida one 

 ounce, and Savin a fmall handful; bruife them together in a 

 mortar into a ball ; then tie the whole in a linen cloth to the 

 middle part of a fnaffle-bit; then let the faid bit, be put into 

 the Horfe's mouth and fo let hnn chew it for one hour, then 

 take it off for an hour, and fo off and on every other hour, 

 until his fymptoms abate. 



Alfo, Aloes alone is a good Chewing Ball, in the above dif- 

 order, and to be made ufe of as the latter. 



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