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viding the ale, powders, twitch, horn, and ap^ 

 paratus, with the additional pleafure of waft- 

 ing or fpilling half the contents, are profeffional 

 DIGNITIES not to be readily given up; more 

 particularly the operator ^ privilege of drinking 

 a part of the ale or Jlrong beer, to be perfecflly 

 convinced it is not TOO STALE for the pur- 

 pofe. To bring this digreffion to a fpeedy 

 crilis, I ihall only beg leave to add, that twenty 

 years lince, obferving the general plague in 

 giving drinks, the conftant and unavoidable 

 wafte in the operation, added to the palpable 

 abfurdity of giving he moft naufeous medi- 

 cines in a liquid form, to conftitute an unne- 

 ceffary ficknefs to the animal, made me rejedl 

 the practice, determining to adopt a method 

 more rational, neat, and confiftent, fo far as 

 my own advice or influence extended. To 

 this circumftance may be attributed the very 

 few drinks prefcribed or recommended in the 

 courfe of this work : the aukward adminiftra- 

 tion of glyfters is likewife rejeded, but where 

 they are palpably neceffary, and even then the 

 bag and pipe fhould be the vehicle for injec- 

 tion ; the Jyringe being an invention of abfo- 

 lute abfurdity, and fit only for fuch pradli- 



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