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liquid form; for, the joint qualities and force 

 of the different ingredients being let loofe at 

 the fame moment upon the internal coat of 

 the ftomach, without their ftimulative powers 

 being covered by aromatic or carminative in- 

 gredients, may (exclufive of the difagreeable 

 fenfation excited by their adion upon the irri- 

 tability of the ftomach) be produdtive of 

 fpafms, or very fevere griping pains, previous 

 to the laxation of the hardened foeces in the 

 inteftines. 



And where fuch pains are evidently predo- 

 minant, the (proper time being more than ex- 

 pired,) and there is no palpable fign of the 

 phyfic's beginning to operate kindly, (which 

 for the confolation of thofe unacquainted with 

 the ceremony, is very feldom the cafe, par- 

 ticularly if the medicines are carefully and ac- 

 curately prepared) fo far from applauding the 

 rafhly recommended fyftem of oiling ^^ a/mall 

 ^^ handy' and extrading the excrement from 

 the fundament, I relinqui(h every expedation 

 of finding ^'a vev^ [mall hand'' among farriers 

 or grooms, and confequently difclaim the idea 

 of encouraging any fuch pradlice, unlefs the 

 reBum fhould be abiolutely plugged up, fo as 



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