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CORDIAL DRINKS. 



Any one of the above, given in half a pint or a 

 pint of warm beer. 



Two wine-glasses of brandy, gin, or rum, and three 

 ditto of hot water. 



Four wine-glasses of port or sherry, and two ditto 

 of hot water, mulled with nutmeg, &c., just as you 

 like it yourself.* 



BEER TOXIC. 



2 drs. gentian, 2 drs. anise-seed, li dr. turmeric, 

 f dr. ginger, ^ dr. black pepper, in a pint of beer. 

 One half of each article, in only half a pint of beer, is 

 the proper strength to begin with after illness, in- 

 creasing to the full dose in a week. 



For a horse whose dung always remains soft after 

 the grain has been reduced, and there is no apparent 

 reason to account for it ; but not to be given until 

 he has first had a mild warm drench of physic, and 

 been afterwards fed for a fortnight on partly boiled 

 grain, with a little gruel always added to his water, 

 this will frequently harden the dung into balls of itself; 

 and then the following ball or drench, given every 

 other morning, when gradually brought on again to 

 dry grain and dry grass, will help to keep it so. 

 Ball : 1 J dr. gentian, quassia, or chreeate, ^ dr. cate- 

 chu, dr. ginger, -^ dr. bhang, - dr. opium. 



* It is a bad practise accustoming a horse to cordial balls or cordial 

 drinks. It is like a man accustoming himself to drachm drinking, after a 

 time he cannot do without them. I would never give them but when a 

 horse is in a state of exhaustion from overwork, or when requiring cordials 

 and tonics when recovering from sickness. ED. 



