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Emollient poultice. Linseed meal made into a poultice 

 by pouring boiling water on it ; when cold add a little lard or oil 

 to prevent it from growing hard. 



Healing poultice. Beat up 1 or 2 eggs with wheat flour 

 to a proper consistence ; for sores. 



Repellent poultice. Vinegar, rape oil, of each p. seq., 

 oatmeal q. s. to form a poultice ; for fresh strains or bruises in 

 horses. 



2. The same, with a little alum dissolved in the vinegar, about 

 loz. to the pint. 



Resolvent poultice. Vinegar, beer, of each p. aeq., sal ammon. 

 2 oz., dissolve, and add oatmeal q. s. ; to resolve coagulated blood 

 in bruises. 



PILLS. 



These differ from the electaries as being solely designed for 

 medicines, which are of a powerful nature, and whose doses must 

 be determined with some accuracy. Although called pills, the 

 greater numl)er of them are kept in the shops in mass, and are 

 only made into pills when wanted for use, or sale by retail. 

 Boluses and the horse-balls, usually kept in the shops, are also 

 included under this title, as they in fact differ only in magnitude. 

 Pills are frequently ordered in old prescriptions to be gilt or sil- 

 vered, which is easily done by placing them, as soon as made, at 

 convenient distances upon a leaf of gold or silver, then cutting oft* 

 the requisite portion, letting the pills and leaf fall into a very dry 

 galhpot ; ana after covering it with a slip of paper and the hand 

 shaking the whole for a moment or two ; the leaf will thus adhere 

 to the pills, but this ornament retards their solution in the stomach. 

 — The size of pills varies in different countries : in England they 

 are of the size of small peas, and about gr. v each ; the Germans 

 make them very small, ordering 30 or 40 in common for a dose, 

 so that they are nicknamed mice-turds, which, in fact, their pills 

 resemble ; the French, on the other hand, make them so large 

 that they resemble our Ix^luses. 



Horse balls should not exceed the size of a pigeon's egg ; they 

 are often rolled in cylinders about one inch wide, and two inches 

 and a half long; they should be wrapped up in the thinnest pajxjr 

 that can be procured. 



I FOR MEDICAL USE. 



|. Aromatic pills. Pilule diamhrcB sine ndoratis, 1*. (iromnticai. 

 iMoes Soc. 3 jss, gum guaiaci ^ j, s|)ccie8 aroniat., bals. Peru v. 

 •Da^ss: in small doses diaphoretic ; in larger, purgative. Now 



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