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do it by the mouth ; for although clysters are orily 

 conveyed into the larger intestines, and, perhans, 

 hardly penetrate into the smaller, still they are ex- 

 tremely useful by fomenting, as it were, the latter, and 

 at the same time by softening the hardened excrement 

 that is accumulated in the former, and rendering it so 

 soft as to be expelled out of the body, by which flatu- 

 lencies, or other offending matters that may be pent 

 up in them, are likewise expelled ; besides, by their 

 warmth and relaxing powers, they act as a fomen- 

 tation to the bowels, and hence may be of considerable 

 service in removing spasmodic constrictions in the 

 bowels, carrying off flatulencies, and in preventing in- 

 flammation in the intestines ; and by conveying 

 opiates to the parts affected, give speedy relief to 

 colics, &c. 



The use of emollient clysters in fevers is con- 

 siderable ; they act by revulsion, and relieve the head 

 when much affected; besides, by throwing in a quantity 

 of diluting iliquor in the intestines, it not only relaxes 

 and cleanses them, but they may be said to cool the 

 body in general ; at the same time a considerable por- 

 tion of the liquid is absorbed and conveyed into the 

 mass of blood, by which means it is diluted, and in 

 particular complaints of the bowels, clysters give al- 

 most immediate relief. 



These remedies, when judiciously employed, pass 

 directly to the parts affected, as they undergo little or 

 no alteration from the powers of the body. 



The diseases of horses are cured on nearly the same 

 principle as those of the human body. The doctrines 

 laid down by physicians for the cure of diseases in the 

 latter are applicable to horses in similar circum- 

 stances ; only it ought to be observed, for obvious rea- 

 sons, that the intestines of horses should always be 



