38 Of SUDDEN ACCIDENTS. 



Stao-gers or Fevers: in the firfl flage if very wild, add to the 

 above Tirifture, Mithridate two ounces and a half, and Tinc- 

 ture of Opium two drams; mix them together and let it be 

 given in a quart of fmall Ale: and as I obferved before in the 

 Section, of the Staggers to take blood plentifully, that is, three 

 or four quarts at one time. 



Seftion 13. 



Of DRINKS for SUDDEN ACCIDENTS, 



THAT caufe pain in the Bowels, from being overthrown 

 in a wet ditch, or the like, or by the ill effeft of a bad 

 damp liable, or the ill-treatment of a groom or fuch like man, 

 that has given cold Water, when the body was hot and empty : 

 alfo from a houfe-fervant that rides a Horfe to a public-houfe 

 door, then turns the poor creature into the yard, with a ftroke 

 from his whip ; then it is a good ten to one, but the Horfe 

 goes to the ciftern of Water, and drinks to fuch a degree that 

 he is liable to catch his death or the like malady. In fuch 

 cafes make ufe, as follows. Take Matthew's Pill four drams, 

 fee page 35, Mithridate two ounces, Saffron one dram, Cam- 

 phire two drams and a half: mix them all together, and 

 diffolve them in a quart of flrong Beer; then add Common 

 Treacle half a pound, for one dofe. This will fweat him 

 much ; keep him warm and encourage the fweat. The above 

 to be repeated as occafion may require the ufe of it. 



A DRINK for SUDDEN ACCIDENTS, 

 Take Bracken's Cordial Ball two ounces, fee page 28, Mith- 

 ridate one ounce, Saffron one dram, Camphire three drams, 



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