COLDS, Sec. 205 



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

 paratuSy with the additional pleafure of waft- 

 ing or fpilling half the contents, are profeffional 

 DIGNITIES not to be readily given up; more 

 particularly the operators privilege of drinking 

 a part of the ale o^Jlrong beer, to be perfedlly 

 convinced it is not TOO STALE for the pur- 

 pofe. To bring this digredion to a fpeedy 

 crifis, 1 (hall only beg leave to add that twenty 

 years fince, obferving the general plague in 

 giving drinks, the conftant and unavcidable 

 wafte in the operation, added to the palpable 

 abfurdity of giving the moft naufeous medi- 

 cines in a liquid form, to conllitute an unne- 

 ceffary ficknefs to the animal, made me rejed 

 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 prefcrlbed or recommended in the 

 courfe of this work : the aukward adminiftra- 

 tion of glyfters is likewlfe rtjeded, but where 

 they are palpably neceffary, and even then the 

 bag and pipe {hould be the vehicle for iniec- 

 tion; the j5'^/;;^^ being an invention of abfo-= 

 lute abfurdity, and fit only for fuch prad:i« 



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