3^4 The Cample at Horfeman : or y 



treamly hurtful *, and when he fweats, you muffc 

 carefully wipe and dry him, and prevent his growing 

 fuddenly cold •, tho' after the firft Ebullition of the 

 Blood is over, you need not confine your felf to fo 

 flri& an obfervance of thofe Cautions. Neither this, 

 nor any other Preparation of Antimony -, has any Pur- 

 gative influence upon Horfes : For I gave to a Horfe, 

 two Pills of the Regulm of Antimony \ of the bignefs 

 of a large Nut ; and two days and a half after, he 

 voided them, without any alteration, or the leaft 

 iign of Purgation. I gave the fame Pills to another 

 Horfe, who two days after voided one, and kept 

 the other in his body feven Years. 



The Emetich T ° make Emetic ^ Wine : Let two 



Wine Ounces of Liver of Antimony in fine 



pouder, ftand twenty four hours in a 

 cold hfufion in three pints of White-Wine •, then pour 

 off a quarts and add another in its place \ repeating 

 fcheabftradtionoftheold, and the addition of frefh 

 Wine, five or fix times. 'Tis an excellent Medicine, 

 both for Men and Horfes. 



To fatisfy the curious, I fhall here 

 ^efdA- ta ^ e occaI * on t0 un f° ld the nature of 

 timonjf n cru ^ e Antimony. 'Tis a cheap and com- 

 mon Mineral, approaching to a Metal- 

 lick Body, of a black colour, fomewhat bluifh, with 

 large points like Needles, fhining like polifh'd Tin. 

 *Tis compos'd of a pure fix'd Sulphur, approaching 

 to that of Gold, and an Inflammable Sulphur like 

 common Brimftone, with a great deal of folid and 

 well conco&ed Mercury^ and a little thick and fat 

 Earth. The Hungarian is the beft. The defign of 

 all its Preparations, is to open and unlock the body 

 of the Regulus^ by reducing it to fmaller and more 

 penetrating Atoms \ which affume the figure of the 

 Salts, with which they are joyn'd •, and may again 

 be reinftated in their primitive form by Nitre or 

 Borax* 



Since 



