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meat-fpoonful, Sweet Oil two ounces, and Common Treacle 

 half a pound, all diflblved together in a quart of Ale; do not 

 put the Rofm in until the above are all dilfolved together, and 

 flood until cold; then put the Rofin in, and (lir them all to- 

 gether for one dofe. Repeat the above as occafion may 

 require the ufe thereof. 



A PURGE for a LAX. 



Take Barbadoes Aloes fix drams. Spermaceti one dram. 

 Rhubarb four drams. Myrrh one dram, Saffron one dram, 

 and Oil of Annifecds forty drops ; made up into a ball with 

 Sirup of Buckthorn, for one dofe. This may be repeated 

 once a week, or as fymptoms may require the ufe of it; then 

 after it make ufe of the following Aflringent Drink. 



An ASTRINGENT DRINK for a LAX. 



Take a handful of Oak Bark, Tormentil-root one ounce, 

 Roch Allum fix drams, boil them in two quarts of Forge 

 Water until it is confumed to a quart; then odd Diafcordium 

 one ounce and a half. Starch two ounces, Tincture of Opium 

 two drams and mix them all tosrether for one dofe : to be re- 

 pcated as occafion may require the ufe of it ; or you may 

 make ufe of the following Clyfler or Drink. 



An ASTRINGENT CLYSTER or DRINK. 

 Take Oak Bark four ounces, Tormentil-root two ounces. 

 Pomegranate Bark and Red Rofes dried, of each a fmall hand- 

 ful ; boil the above in four quarts of Forge Water until it is 

 confumed to two quarts ; then add Diafcordium two ounces, 

 Mithridate one ounce and a half, and Tinclure of Opium two 

 drams, give the above as a Clyfler. This will flop the Bloody 



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