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For a Super purgation In a Horfe: 

 Take of PUntane- leaves in Summer, or the for a sJJ*]^ 

 feeds in Winter, a [uffcient quantity: purgation. 

 Boil them in three quarts of Beer^ and 

 add to the ftraining, Catholicum, two ounces, Rhubarb 

 and feafd Earth, of each four ounces : Make a Clyfter^ 

 to be repeated twice or thrice. In the mean time, 

 exhibit a Potion of two quarts of MUk y in which 

 you have quench'd Steel five or fix times, mix'd with 

 two ounces of the ft ones of roafted Grapes, and an ounce 

 and a half of the fbavings of Ivory, calcined, and beaten 

 to a very fine pouder. 



CHAP. XXXVI. 



Of the Falling of the Fundament. 



THE Falling-out of the Fundament is occa- 

 fjon'd by a violent Flux, or the Piles, oblig- 

 ing the Horfe to (train violently •, or (as it often 

 happens) by cutting off the Tail ; in which cafe, 

 if it is accompany'd with a great Swelling, 'tis al- 

 nioft always a fatal fign of a Gangrene fpreading to- 

 wards the Back : And if it does not quickly yield 

 to the ordinary Remedies, the Horfe may be given 

 over for loft. 



This Malady ought never to be neglecled \ for it 

 may be attended with dangerous Confequences ; 

 And therefore you muft anoint the place with Oif 

 of Rofes bloodwarm, and afterwards endeavour to 

 put it up. After two or three fuccefslefs Attempts^ 

 you muft have recourfe to what follows. 



Beat fix drams of the Salt of Lead in a Mortar^ 



pouring on it, by degrees, a fufficient quantity of Goafs 



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