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BOW peatcd every other day for three times. Lenetive electuary and cream of tar tar, of each four ounces, yellow rosin, finely powdered, one ounce, and four ounces of sweet oil, mixed in a pint of water gruel. If the distemper increases, and the horse's flanks and belly appear inflated, a clyster should be given, of chamomile flowers one handful, red -roses half a handful, pomegra- nate and balaustines, of each an ounce, boiled in two quarts of wa- ter to one; and strained with three ounces of diascordium, and one of mithridate, dissolved in it, to which may be added a pint of port wine. This mixture' should be injected once a day, and an ounce of dias- cordium given in the animal's night- drink. When the griping is very severe, in consequence of the mucus of the bowels being washed away, a clys- ter, composed of two quarts of tripe-broth, or thin starch, half a pint of the oil of olives, the yolk of si;; eggs, well broke, and two or three ounces of coarse sugar, should frequently be injected warm. Horses thathave weak stomachs, or bowels, void their aliment undi- gested ; and they are gene rail y lean. The following purge has been found an efficacious remedy. Socotrine aloes, six drams ; rhu- barb powdered, three drams ; myrrh and saffron, each a dram ; made into a ball widi syrup of gin- ger. This purge should be given two or three times, and afterwards an infusion of zedoary, gentian, Winter's bark, and orange-peel, of each two ounces ; pomegranate, bark and balaustines, each an ounce; chamomile flowers and centaury, each a handful ; cinnamon and cloves, each an ounce ; the whole steeped in a gallon of port, or.trong no. in. — vol. I. BOX foil beer, should be given to the quan* tity of a pint every morning. For the cure of the bloody-flux in horses, die following clyster is highly esteemed : oak-bark, four ounces ; tormentil-root, two ounces; b urnt hartshorn, three ounces : boil- ed in three quarts of forge- water to two, and strained with the addi- tion of two ounces of diascordium, four ounces of starch, and half a dram of opium. Gum-arabic dis- solved in hartshorn should be the horse's usual drink. Incostiveness, gentle purgatives, such as cream of tartar, Glauber's salts, and lenetive elect uar j , ! i be given. Four ounces of any two of these dissolved in ivarm ale, re- peated every other morning in the course of one week, and assisted by an emollient clyster prepared with a handful of salt, will answer this purpose. Scalded bran, with art- ounce of fenugreek and kntseed, occasionally given, will prevent cos- tiveness. But where it is consti- tutional, and the horse continues in perfect health, no inconvenience will arise from it; nay, it is well known, that such horses are re- markably vigorous and hardy. BOX, generally implies a small coffer, or chest, to contain articles of any kind. The term is also employed to express an uncertain quantity of measure : a box of quicksilver, for instance, contains from one to two hundred weight ; a box of prunella only fourteen pounds ; and among ironmongers, a box of rings for keys, two gross, &:c. BOX-TREE, or Bzuus, L. a genus of plants containing three species ; namely, the sempervirens, or common box, with oval leaves ; the angns'lfulia, or narrow-leaved box ; and the sujj'jutkosa, or Dutch ^ box j