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Flux if given as a drink, efpecially if it is divided for three 

 drinks, and repeated once a-day for three or four days : at 

 the fame time make ufe of the above Clyfler if occafion may 

 require the ufe of it. 



A Mellow Softening DRINK in a LAX. 



Take Ifinglafs two ounces, chopped fmall, and boiled in 

 three pints of Sweet Milk, over a flow Fire until thoroughly 

 mixed ; give the whole as a drink in a morning failing. — • 

 Repeat the above drink for four or five mornings together. 

 The above is valuable when the Stomach and Bowels are 

 galled ; and alfo, is of great ufe in the Ihedding of Nature. 



For a LOOSENESS on a FOAL that follows the DAM. 



Take a double handful of Gorfe Bloffoms, and boil them in 

 two quarts of Sweet Milk: give three fmall hornfuls of the 

 above three or four times a-day, until braced, or as long as 

 occafion may require the ufe of it. 



To Stop a LAX or SCOURING, 

 Take a Sheet of coarfe Brown Paper and pound it in a 

 mortar, with as much Water as will fomewhat wet it ; pound 

 it all to a chyle, then add one quart of Ale to the above ; then 

 mix it all together: make it warm, and give it for one drinks 

 and repeat it as occafion may require the ufe of it. 



To Stop OVER-PURGING to Excefs in the Time of 



PHYSIC, ■ 



Take Red Port Wine one quart. Soft Water one quart. 

 Loaf Sugar four ounces. Cinnamon Bark, Cloves, Mace, and 

 Nutmeg, of each two drams, in powder : boil the above over 

 a flow lire ; then add as much old White Bread as will thicken 



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