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when alive ; therefore I am justified hi 

 saying, that I imagine it must be con- 

 jecture, and that I give a good reason for 

 my opinion : however, I will not assert, 

 or be positive in an opinion which may 

 be contrary to that of more experienced 

 men. 

 Wounds in Wouuds iu the skin of horses will q^e- 



the skin of ^ 



hGrses. nerally be cured by lint dipped in Friar's 

 Balsam. I have already mentioned the 

 great benefit of nitre in inflammatory fevers. 

 Osmer relates a story of a horse, which he 

 asserts to be a fact : — that a horse, with the 

 nitad staggers on him, broke out of the 

 stable at a powder-mill, and got to a cistern 

 of water in which a large quantity of salt- 

 petre had been dissolved. He drank plen- 

 tifully of it, after which he became imme- 

 diately well, without any thing else being 

 given him. He mentions this, to shew the 

 good effect of nitre in fevers. 

 If Daffy s I have already mentioned, that A bottle 



explnsive^ive OF Daffy's Elixir is thc best medicine I 



Phi Ionium Ro- 



oiaaum. ^vcr tried for a horse taken with the 

 cholic, or gripes, from drinking cold water, 

 kc. &c. But, as Daffy's Elixir is expensive;, 



