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l)Ut this will very rarely be the case, if two bleed! n£js have been carried 

 to the extent that has been recommended. — No practice is more com- 

 mon, amongst unscientific practitioners, (after taking- away three or 

 four pints of bloodj than the use of smart Aloetic Purgatives ih In- 

 flammations of the Lungs. But this practice cannot be too much con- 

 demned, as it is always attended with risque, and too frequently with 

 danger. For, there is always under the best circumstances, an uni- 

 form tendency in the inflammatory diseases of the Viscera of the 

 chest, to be propagated to those of the belly ; and when the stimulus 

 of the Aloes is exerted in full activity upon the bowels, some part of 

 the intestinal canal frequently takes on the inflammatory action, 

 Avhich, in these xases, quickly runs on to mortification, and death 

 speedily closes the scene. 



-Numberless, indeed, are the instances of Horses killed by aloetic 

 -purgatives, administered in inflammations of the lungs. This 

 qiractice, bowever, joined to the frequent use of cordial balls is but 

 .-•too common in this disease which usually goes under the vague 

 and indefinite name of a cod. But as I have amply discussed the 

 danger of the promiscuous use of Aloes, in the chapter on the use 

 .and abuse of purgatives, I shall refer my reader for further informa- 

 >tion on this particular, to that part of my work. Whilst at the same 

 time, it is but right that I should here enter my solemn protest against 

 the use of cordial balls (the favourite medicine of the stable) in this 

 4lisease; as they must, inevitably, have the effect o^ raising the pulse 

 and of exasperating the inflammation, in consequence of the stimu- 

 lating materials of which they are composed. 



And there can be no manner of question that many slight attacks 

 upon the lungs of Horses, have terminated fatally, entirely through 



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