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symptoms of the heifer. Mother, sisters, friends,father, all tried 
to cure her, but in vain; and the physician actually 
“ Had taken liis leave with sighs and sorrow, 
Despairing of his fee to-morrow 
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when the herdsman, happening to hear of her case, prevailed 
upon her, at last, to try the heifer’s secret remedy ; she did so, and 
in a very short time, to the astonishment of her friends, became 
one of the stoutest young women in the duchy. What had sud¬ 
denly cured one young lady was deemed a proper prescription for 
another, and, all cases meeting with success, the spring gra¬ 
dually rose into notice and repute. I may observe, by the by, 
that even to this day horses are brought by the peasants to be 
bathed ; and I have good authority for believing, that, in cases 
of slight consumption of the lungs (a disorder common enough 
among horses), the animal recovers his flesh with surprising 
rapidity: Nay, I have seen even pigs bathed, though I must 
own that they appeared to have no other disorder except hunger. 
Bubbles from the Brunens of Nassau. 
Prescription for a Cold in Horses. 
Take a bottle of strong beere, boile it a little, and then scumm 
off the froath. Then take Jib. of raisins of the sunne, *a head 
of garlicke, and stampe them together. Then take a quarter of 
an ounce of tobacco, and Id. worth of treacle, and 2d. worth of 
browne sugar candye; Id. worth of licoras, and as much anis- 
seedes. Let them boyle together a pretty while in the beere, and 
then straine them very cleare, and lett it stand until it be cold: 
then give it the horse, and ride him a little, and set him up 
warme, and three houres after give him a mash .—Harleian MS. 
(ff* Mr. PERCIVALL’s Work on HIPPO-PATHOLOGY will appear 
about the latter end of this Month. 
