494 SUPPLEMENT. 



tion of the loins were both evidently better, 

 and the violence of every former symptom 

 promised gradually to subside ; he soon took, 

 and continued to take, occasional supplies of 

 the bread and milk well boiled, of thin con- 

 sistence, for the purpose. 



The glysters were repeated every four or 

 five hours, without remission, with little va- 

 riation in advantage and appearance, till ten 

 or eleven had been given, their good effects 

 being plainly perceptible in every repetition ; 

 when after a succession of severe trials and 

 repeated strainings for many minutes, one 

 entire mass was voided, composed of every 

 kind of extraneous substance such an animal 

 could have been supposed to swallow with 

 food during its puppyism. It clearly con- 

 csisted of grass or hay, wonderfully matted 

 or interwoven with hair, and particles of 

 sand or gravel cemented together so t\r- 

 ccedinglij hard, that it might be fairly sup- 

 posed to have been prepared by art, and 

 passed through a mould by some instrument 

 or powerful pressure. 



This extraordinary expulsion occasioned 

 no surprize; on the contiary, it removed 



