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the end of a wooden pipe about fourteen or fifteen 

 inches long, one inch and a half diameter where the 

 pipe is tied, and becoming gradually taper to the ex- 

 tremity, where the thickness should suddenly increase 

 and be rounded off at the point as smooth as pos- 

 sible. 



The hole through the pipe may be made sufficiently 

 large so as to admit the end of a common funnel for 

 pouring the liquor into the bag. By the flexibility 

 of the bladder at the end of this instrument no danger 

 can happen to the horse, whilst the clyster is con- 

 veyed so far up into the intestines that it will be re- 

 tained. It causes no surprise (provided the liquor be 

 neither too hot nor too cold, but of the same warmth 

 as the intestines themselves,) as no other force is re- 

 quired to throw it up than the holding the bag a little 

 higher than the level of the pipe, by which means the 

 hquor flows gently into the gut without occasioning 

 any surprise to the horse. After using the bag it may 

 be blown full of wind, a cork put into the pipe, and 

 hung up in some dry place to prevent it from rotting, 

 by which means it will be fit for use on future oc- 

 casions. 



Clysters are distinguished by different names, which 

 denominate the quality of the ingredients of which they 

 are composed, as emollient, laxative, diuretic, ano- 

 dyne, &c. 



As the more general use of clysters in the practice 

 of farriery would be attended with the most salutary 

 effects, especially in acute diseases, where the speediest 

 assistance is necessary, Mr. Clark subjoins the fol- 

 lowing forms for composing them, together with the 

 cases in which they may be administered with ad- 

 vantage : — 



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