Powder of Myrrh and

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Source: The farrier's dispensatory : In three parts. Containing first, a description of the medicinal simples commonly made use of in the diseases of horses ... Secondly, the preparation of simples, vegetable, animal and mineral ... Thirdly, a number of useful compositions and receipts suited to the cure of all diseases. To which is also added, a complete index of all the medicines contained in the book ... with a table of diseases ... by Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750 (1726), narrative-offset-530599.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Myrrh and: Another. ‘ Take Powder of Myrrh and “« Aloes, of each two Drams, pu- © rified Nitre one Dram, Rofin in © Powder half an Ounce, Powder ‘ of Harts-horn one Ounce ; mix ‘ thefe together with a fufficient * Quantity of Tar, and {weet Oil © for one Dofe. If this be repeated, it will be of very great fervice, not only to remove a he Stangury, but to ren- der any Horfe more hearty and vigorous, by working on the Hu- mours,

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: Another. ‘ Take Powder of Myrrh and “« Aloes, of each two Drams, pu- © rified Nitre one Dram, Rofin in © Powder half an Ounce, Powder ‘ of Harts-horn one Ounce ; mix ‘ thefe together with a fufficient * Quantity of Tar, and {weet Oil © for one Dofe. If this be repeated, it will be of very great fervice, not only to remove a he Stangury, but to ren- der any Horfe more hearty and vigorous, by working on the Hu- mours, and keeping him alfo from being coftive ; but the Rea- der may confult that Section con- cerning Powders, where there are feveral other Prefcriptions of the fame Intention, which the Practitioner may make into Balls, either for the Conveniency of toat Form, or for Exaétnefs in the Dofe. ‘ Take Diapente two Ounces, ‘ Turmerick and Cajtile Soap, ‘ of each an Ounce, Saffron. one ’ ‘ Dram, Hog-lice prepared half ‘ and Ounce ; let all the hard € Ingredients be made into Pow- « der, and then ftampt with the * Soap, adding a fufficient Quan- ‘tity of Tar, Turpentine, or of « the Balfam of Sulphur, to make ‘ it into two Balls for two Do- © fes,, one to be given in the © ‘ Morn- ~\ ae a able in the Yellows and faundice, and in all Diforders infefting the Liver, and Paffages of the Gall; two Dofes commonly make a Cure, unlefs the Difeafe be of an an old ftanding, in which Cafe they may be repeated for two Days more, or until the moft ur- gent Symptoms wear off, that. the Horfe begins to be more brisk and lively, and takes more freely to any kind of Labour or Exer- cife.

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