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grains, and administer the sedative clyster, below- 

 mentioned. 



Mercurial Ball. — No. 2. 



Corrosive sublimate, 10 grains, 



Emetic tartar, half a drachm, 



Opium, 6 drachms. 

 Mix, with liquorice-powder and mucilage sufficient 

 to form the ball for one dose. Give as before, at 

 night and morning. 



Feed the patient generously during this course 

 of strong medicine ; watch its progress closely, and 

 lessen the quantity, or discontinue it altogether a 

 day or two w r hen he is agitated greatly within, par- 

 ticularly if a kind of sickness or gurgling be dis- 

 cernible, and the horse is off his appetite. Let him 

 be clothed completely. Malt mashes, occasionally 

 sodden corn, and coarse sugar mixed with his corn, 

 dry, are good assistants to the proper operation of 

 mercury. That is a mistaken notion, which in- 

 duced some farriers to give the edible roots, as tur- 

 nips, carrots, &c. to the horse under a course of 

 mercury ; for these w r ar with its operation, and 

 cause that very commotion in the bowels we should 

 most sedulously avoid. When the mercurial pre- 

 parations disagree with the bowels, give clysters of 

 water-gruel, w r ith camphor in it, 2 drachms ; this is 

 goodly sedative. Indeed, the gruel clyster is a good 

 assistant to the operation of any mineral prescrip- 

 tion, by softening the parts. 



In recommending the free application of the 



