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the juke of two or three lemons, or add half a pint of vinegar. Asthe ingredient chietly to be depended on in this drink is the nitre,it may perhaps be as well given in water alone ; but as a horse’sstomach is easily palled, and he requires palatable medicines, theother ingredients may be useful in tins respect.
No. 15. Astringent Drink.
Take logwood, half a pound; pomegranate peel, four ounces;cassia, halt an ounce; linlseed, two ounces. Boil in three quarts ofwater to two, and strain off. Where it can be afforded, half a pintof port wine may be added to each dose.
No. 16. Strengthening Drink.
Take gentian, calamus, and orange peel, two ounces each;chalybeate or smithy water made boiling hot, two quarts: infusetill cold ; then strain, and add equal quantities of lime-water freshmade, one pint, or one and a halt, to be given once or twice a-duyfor some weeks.
No. 17. Deobstruent Decoction.
Take parsley root, madder, and turmeric, four ounces each ;burdock, root, half a pound; liquorice root, two ounces; boil ina gallon of smithy or forge water to three quails.
POWDERS.
Powders are a form of medicine not well adapted for internalme, in any other way than in a mash or corn; and for the reasonas-igned in the preceding section, every thing of a disagreeablellavour, whether in smell or taste, should be rejected, when themedicine is to be given in this form.
No. 18. Vermifuge Powdf.rs.
Take rEthiops mineral, and powdered tin, four ounces each;prepared steel and India pirik in powder, each two ounces. Mix,and divide into twelve doses.
No. 19. Sternutatory Powders.
I. Take white hellebore, three ounces, lavender, betony, andmarjoram, each one ounce. Mix.
II. Take turbith mineral, one drachm; powdered betony, ormarjoram, two ounces. Mix. These powders are given withsuccess in cases of apoplexy or staggers.
No. 20. Alterative Powder.
I. Take gum guaiacum, four ounces; levigated antimony, eightounces; sulphur, six ounces. Mix, and divide into sixteen doses;one to be given at night and morning.
Clysters are differently denominated, according to the quali-ties of the ingredients composing them. There are many cases inwhich they may he administered with great success.
No. 21. Laxative Clyster.
Take two or three quarts of thin water-gruel; Glauber’s salts, orcommon salt, eight ounces; salad oil, six ounces.
No. 22. Purging Clyster.
Take two quarts of gruel; coarse sugar, six ounces; Glauber’ssalts, four ounces ; tincture of jalap, two ounces; and half a pint ofolive oil. To he repeated every twenty-four hours, or oltener, ifnecessary.
No. 23. Turpentine Clysters.
I. Take Venice turpentine, two ounces: dissolve it in the yolksof eggs, and add opiate confection, two ounces; Epsom salt, fourounces ; thin gruel, two pints. Mix.
II . Take two or three pints of thin gruel; dissolve it in one and ahalf ounce nitre ; then add three ounces of Venice turpentine pre-viously incorporated with the yolks of two eggs; and likewise halfa pint of iintseed oil. When a clyster is designed to promote urine,this is very'well calculated for the purpose, and should he thrownup moderately warm.
No. 2 I. Starch Clyster.
Take thin starch, or tripe liquor, two quarts; oil of olives, half apint; the yolks of six eggs well broken, and two or three ouncesof coarse sugar. Mix the oil bv degrees with the yolks of (heeggs, and then gradually add the starch or tripe liquor, in whichthe sugar has been previously dissolved.
No. 25. Astringent Clysters.
Take oak bark, four ounces; torment'd root, two ounces; burnt
harts-horn, three ounces. Boil in three quarts of smithy water totwo; strain off, and add four ounces of starch,previously softenedwith a little warm water, towards the end of the boiling; and inthe strained liquor while warm dissolve half a drachm of opium.
No. 26. Vermifuge Clyster.
In a pint of very strong decoction of two parts of commo*wormwood and one of rue, dissolve half an ounce of aloes, andadd one pint of lime-water, and half a pint ef Iintseed oil. Letthe whole be well incorporated and administered for a dose, incase of worms.
LINIMENTS, EMBROCATIONS, and LOTIONS.
A Liniment differs from an embrocation or lotion, by havingso>.ie unctuous ingredients in its composition ; though this dis-tinction is. not unitoiinly regarded. It differs from an ointment byheing of a much thinner consistence.
No. 27. Lotion for the Mange.lake corrosive sublimate, one ounce; common salt, three ounces ;boiling water, one gallon, tobacco liquor, half a gallon. Mix.
No. 28. Styptic Balsam, or Liniment for the Farcy.
I. 'Fake oil of turpentine, three ounces, l’ut it into a pint bot-tle, and drop into it two ounces of oil of vitriol; adding the lattergradually, to prevent a great and sudden effervescence, whichmight hurst the bottle. To avoid this, let the hist small quantitythat is dropt in, (which must not exceed a tea-spoonful at once,)have done smoking, before dropping in any more. When thefarev affects the larger blood-vessels, after bleeding, the parts mustbe hrd rubbed with a woollen’’cloth, and this liniment must thenbe applied over the buds and swellings twice a-day. It abates theacrimony of the humours, prevents the rising of fungous flesh, amimakes the sores run. But when the disease lies loose in the fleshyparts, there must be equal quantities of the oils of vitriol and tur-pentine. This method may he continued a fortnight, or till thesores run plentifully and begin to dry : and till the lips and edgesare no way thick and callous. Then mix equal parts of ointmentof elder and honey, to promote the grow th of (he hair; or dressthem w ith Turner’s cerate, or any other soil ointment. This treat-ment must be accompanied with the internal use of alteratives.The alterative powder, No. 20, is the best for this purpose.
II. Fake salad oil, three ounces, spermaceti, six drachms: bees-wax, four drachms: Melt them over a gentle tire, and stir themtill quite cold.
No. 29. Cooling Coli.yrium.
Take sugar of lead, one drachm; white vitriol, two scruples;camphorated spirit, one ounce ; water, eight ounces. Mix.
No. 30. Volatile Llniment.
Take neat’s foot oil, two ounces ; strong spirit of sa! ammoniac,and one ounce ami a half tincture of cantharides, half an ounce.Mix. This is an useful application in various topical inflamma-tions, especially where there is a tendency to suppuration.
No. 31. Saturnine Lotion.
I. Take extract of lead, two ounces; camphorated spirit, eightounces; distilled vinegar, one pint. Mix.
II. 'Fake extract of lead, one ounce ; distilled vinegar, sevenounces ; water, eight ounces. Mix. In recent bruises, strains,and swellings occasioned by external accidents, the part affectedmay be bathed frequently with this lotion; ami where it will ad-mit of bandage, let a double or triple fold of flannel he w etted withit, and rolled on.
No. 32. Soap Liniment, or Opodeldoc.
'Fake Castile or white soap, four ounces; camphor, two ounces.Dissolve the soap in a pint of proof spirit, and the camphor in asin licit rectified spirit: Then mix the two solutions, and add half anounce of essential oil of rosemary. Opodeldoc is often success-fully used against strains, bruises. Ac. hut its efficacy is increasedby the addition of the ingredients which form the anodyne balsam.See No. 33.
No. 33. Anodyne Balsam.
'Fake crude opium, one Gunee ; vinous spirit of sal ammoniac,(or spirit of wine and spirit of sal ammoniac equal parts of eachmixed,) half a pound; soap liniment, one pound and a half. Di-gest the opium in the vinous spirit of sal ammoniac till it he dis-solved : then add the solution to the soap liniment, ami strain the6 whole