Name: Purging Drink, and Further Instructions
Ingredients: 4 drachms Barbadoes aloes; 2 ounces Electuary of senna; 2 ounces Epsom salts; 1 ounce Nitre; 2 drachms Tincture of opium; 1 quart thin gruel

Purging Drink, and Further Instructions

Ingredients

Directions

Mix all ingredients together.
Dissolve the mixture in a quart of thin gruel.
Administer the drink to the horse as needed.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.