100 PHYSICKING. 



PHYSIC BALL, AND DRENCH. 



Ball. — Finely powdered aloes, and a quarter 

 the quantity of kidney mutton fat, that has been 

 well boiled down. Make into a long ball, or 

 two, if it should be large, adding a dozen drops 

 of oil of anise-seed, and some calomel, if required. 

 Wrap it up in tissue-paper, oiling the same 

 with linseed-oil at the time of giving, for a 

 ball cannot be too soft. A hard ball takes 

 double the time to dissolve, besides the danger 

 of its sticking in the gullet, and choking the 

 animal. If the aloes be soft and difficult to 

 powder, mix in the mutton fat and warm them 

 together over a fire. 



Drenclu — Put the aloes and Epsom salts into 

 a pint bottle, pour three quarters of a pint of 

 hot water over them, shake until well dissolved, 

 and, when cool, give.* 



When calomel is required over night, pre- 

 vious to a ball or drench on the following morn- 

 ing, it is to be mixed up with a spoonful of 

 linseed-meal and ghee, and given at five or six 

 o'clock, on an empty stomach, before taking his 



* Some horses will hold a drench in their mouths for ten 

 minutes without swallowing it. 



