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(C) ANODYNE CLYSTER IN DIARRHCEA. 



Starch, made as for household pur- 

 poses i quart. 



Powdered opium .... 2 drachms 

 The opium to be boiled in water, and added to the starch. 



(D) A NOURISHING CLYSTER. 



Thick gruel 3 quarts. 



Strong ale 1 quart. 



Mix. Or, 



Strong ale . . . . . .1 quart. 



Thick milk 2 quarts. 



Mix. 



(E) ASTRINGENT CLYSTERS. 



Boiled milk 3 pints. 



Thin starch 2 pints. 



Laudanum . . . . .1 ounce. 



(F) Another. 



Alum whey 1 quart. 



Boiled starch 1 quart. 



Cordials (see Stimulants) are mixtures or simples 

 that invigorate by their stimulating property, usually 

 through the medium of the stomach. Cordials have been 

 so long the very stronghold of the ignorant and presuming 

 that the very term sounds ill in the ear of the well- 

 informed veterinarian. A horse, unlike a gin-drinking 

 groom, has an undebauched stomach, and does not require 

 a cordial ball twice a week, nor on every evening after 

 hunting, nor on every morning his coat stares with the 

 altered temperature. To the animal a cordial, as being 

 unnatural, must be hurtful, unless required by some very 

 extraordinary exertion, which, by calling forth too much 

 of the constitutional powers, has expended the vital re- 

 sources whence the stomach draws its tone. Thus, after a 

 very hard run with hounds, this may happen, and then a 

 gentle stimulant may excite the digestive system artificially. 

 Here a cordial ma}^ be proper and even necessary. A good 



