PHYSICKING. 95 



arable dissolved and put into it, and repeat 

 this every two hours till the purging stops, or 

 lie has once dunged a little thicker. He is 

 not to eat or drink a particle of anything else 

 till this takes place, but remain quiet in a 

 loose stall with a muzzle on, and allow^ed to 

 lie down on his bed. If he will drink the 

 gruel, let him take a couple of quarts each 

 time ; if not, drench him with one. A horse 

 should not have a dozen watery evacuations, 

 when the intention is merely to promote condi- 

 tion or prevent illness, or, the object for which 

 the physic is given will be defeated. This fine 

 bajree, or wheat-flour gruel, and gum, will 

 soothe the bowels, and in the course of six 

 or eight hours generally stop the purging. 

 Should it not be found suflicient, and he should 

 still purge on to the number of twenty times 

 and more, it will be time for you to look to 

 Over-purging, in a subsequent page of this vo- 

 lume. 



When the physic has done working, w^he- 

 ther it has been a ball or a drench, two days 

 more are still required before he can resume 

 his former grain, and be put to w^ork ; for the 

 too rapidly filling of the stomach and bowels im- 

 mediately after physic, often proves as dangerous 

 as giving the physic without preparation. Two 



