FATHOLOCY. T7 



Take Barbadocs aloes, three drams ; calomel, 

 half a dram ; ginger in powder, one scruple ; 

 conserve, or honey, sufficient to make the 

 ball. 



Four of these balls may be made, and one given 

 every week, which will, in general, complete the 

 cure. 



What we have advanced respecting inflam- 

 mation of the liver, is only to be understood as a 

 partial or chronic inflammation. When it becomes 

 acute, we can hold out very httle prospect of re- 

 lief; it frequently destroying the patient in fifteen 

 or twenty hours, which does not allow of any ef- 

 fectual operation of medicine. 



We will however endeavour to point out the best 

 method of prevention : This acute inflammation of 

 the liver arises from hot stables, and where a large 

 quantity of moist litter is suffered to remain under 

 the horse ; it is more frequent in barracks, where 

 a great number of horses are together, than in 

 the stables of gentlemen, where it very rarely 

 happens; 



It will be best prevented, by removing the 

 causes above mentioned, and frequently giving the 

 following gentle phyfic; 



