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 rejeding powers, compels a ball 

 to regurgitate, and it cannot be ealily or pro- 

 perly paffed, this drink may be admitted with 

 propriety. But where a dofe of phyfic is given 

 merely as a purgative, without any indication 

 of inftantanepus neceffity, I muft, in juftice, 

 certainly recommend a bail in preference : and 

 for this reaion, which I doubt not will prove 

 perfedily confident and fatisfadlory to every 

 mind prepared for information. — The ball 

 being given, is twenty-four hours in its gra- 

 dual difTolutioa in the ftomach, and fubfe- 

 quent paffage through the inteflinal canal; 

 this, by its gentle and regular folution of the 

 excrements, and lubrication of the parts, ac- 

 counts moft readily for the great eafe any of 

 the preceding balls work off with in general, 

 without the leaft neceffity for all that alarm 

 and apprehenfion betrayed by fo many, who 

 prefer the chance of fpoiling, or at leaft in- 

 juring, a capital horfe, to feeing him under 

 the temporary dlfquietude of a falutary courfe 

 of phyfic. 



The fame eafe is not to be expelled in the 

 operation of cathartic medicine conveyed in a 



liquid 



