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135&#93; L U N tjasrts of blood should be tdken from the animal, on the first day j and four pints, on the succeeding morning. If the unfavourable symptoms do not abate, it will be necessary to draw blood repeated- ly, one quart at a time ; but, if the creature be old or weak, the bleed- ings ought to be sparing in qu.n- tity, and more frequently repeated. Next, some sweet hay and bran should be cut very small, scalded together, and placed in the man- ger, in order that the fames may be inhaled. Mr. Taplix directs this internal fomentation to be at- tended to every fourth or fifth hour, and the following decoftion to be immediately adni nistered ; — Let six ounces of pearl-barley, a similar quantity of split raisins aiid Turkey figs cut in slices, and two ounces of bruised stick liquorice, be boiled in a gallon of water, till the li(juid be reduced to three quarts. It is then to be strained, and a pound of honey added, while it is hot ; and, as soon as it is cold, a pint of distilled vinegar. Of tliis decodion he prescribes one pint to be given, witii the addition of an ounce of nitre, every fourth, fifth, or sixth hour, according to ti:e greater or less urgency of the symptoms. .Should the disease progressively become more obstinate, and the animal be costive, a clyster ought to be given ; consisting of two quarts of common gruel, six ounces of coarse sugar, four ounces of Glauber's salt, two ounces of tinc- ture of jalap, and a quarter of a pint of olive-oil. This inje£tion is to be repeated once in twenty-four hours, or of tener, if necessary. But, jf the virulence of the disorder abate in consequence of these ap- plicatioijS; the subpcqucnt trcatuiei^ L U N [i may be similar to that stated in p. 82 of our second volume : be- side which, one of the following balls may be administered every morning, for a fortnight : — Take Castile soap, six ounces; gum am- moniac, two ounces ; anise seeds and cummin seeds, of each four ounces, in powder. These ingre- d.ents are to be incorporated with a sufficient quantity of honey to form a mass, which should be di- vided into twelve balls. — The horse's diet, during the progress of the disease, ought to consist of warm mashes of scalded bran, sweetened with four ounces of ho- ney ; M hile his common drink may be thin gruel, in each draught of whit'h two ounces of cream of tar- tar should be dissolved. These pre- parations, however, may be gradu- ally relinquished, as the animal re- covers; and the mode of treatment be varied as circumstances may re- quire. LUNGWORT, or Pulmonaria, L. a genus of perennial plants, comprising six species, three of which are natives of Britain : the principal of these is the ojfficinalis. Common Lungwort, Spotted Lung- wort, Cowslips ot Jerusalem, oir Broad-leaved Lungw ort ; growing in woods, and flowering in the months of April and May. Tins species is eaten by sheep and goats, but is not relished by cows, and totally refused by horses ai-d liOgs. It is cultivated in gardens, on ac- count of its leaves, which, in a fresh state, possess a slightly as- tringent and mucilaginous taste. They are retom^iended in tickling coughs, pulmonary consumption, &c. but are more useful as a culi- nary vegetable, and as salad, espe- cially in early spring. Allien burut^ tlie cojuaion -ung- K 4 wort