P H Y S I C, &c. 43 



- In inflammatory cafes, where a cathartic is 

 required to operate expeditioufly ; or where a 

 horfe, by his rejecting povv^ers, compels a ball 

 to regurgitate, and it cannot be ealily or pro- 

 perly palled, this drink may be admitted with 

 propriety. But where a dole of phylic is given 

 m.erely as a purgative, without any indication 

 of inftantaneous necellity, I muft, in juftice, 

 certainly recommend a ball in preference ; and 

 for this realbn, which I doubt not will prove 

 perfectly confident and fatisfa6tory to every 

 mind prepared for information. — The ball 

 being given, is tv/enty-four hours in its gra- 

 dual dilTolution in the ftomach and fubfe- 

 quent paffage through the intedinal canal; 

 this, by his gentle and regular folution of the 

 excrem.ents, and lubrication of the parts, ac- 

 counts moft readily for the great eafe any of 

 the preceding balls v/crk off w'ith in general, 

 without the leaft neceffity for all that alarm and 

 appreheniion betrayed by fo m.any, who prefer 

 the chance of fpoiling, or at leaft injuring, a 

 capital horfe, to feeing him under the tempo- 

 rary difquietude of a falutary courfe of phy- 

 lic. 



The fame eafe is not to be expedled in the 

 operation of cathartic medicine conveyed in a 



liquid 



