U6 SWEATING AND URINE BALLS. ALTERATIVE REGIMEN. 



Diuretic Alterative Powder. 



Powdered resin, | of each 2 ounces. 



M'lx, and give in four doses, of mornings. To be conttMuetl until it« efTecif 

 are visible. 



Purging Balls. 



Aloes, 9 drachms. 

 Hard soap, 3 drachms, 

 Ginger, 1 drachm. 

 Mix with mucilage sufficient to form the ball for one dose. 



The Alterative Ball. 



Aloes, 6 drachms. 

 Hard soap, 8 drachms, 

 Ginger, 3 drachms. 



Mix with mucilage sufficient to form tlie mass, and divide it into four balls. 

 Give one every morning until the bowels are opened sufficiently. 

 The perspiration must be promoted by the following 



Diaphoretic Ball. 



Emetic tartar, 2 drachms, 

 Venice turpentine, 4 drachms. 



Mix well, with liquorice powder sufficient to form the ball into one dose; anc 

 give every other night for a week or ten days, taking care to clothe the patient, 

 or put a rug on his body at least, regulating his sweats according to the 

 weather. Some persons do not think it too much trouble to divide the forego- 

 ing ball into two parts, and give one every night for tlic periods just mention- 

 ed, which would bring the whole quantity of emetic tartar to the same amount 

 in the end. Be careful to buy it genuine ; and if the horse be taken care of 

 while in his sweats, it will mainly contribute to his getting well. The patient 

 is not to have this sweating ball whilst he has other physic in him ; but it may 

 be given alternately with the foregoing powder of nitre and resin ; and is better 

 administered thus, when it happens that the individual requires to be set a sta- 

 ling, and we think best to sweat him at the same time. If the medicine makes 

 his bowels grumble, add to the ball 



Opium, half a drachm, 



which some do put into the prescription, whether or no. But then the opium 

 having a tendency to bind the body, it counteracts our labour in this respect, 

 md is not desirable in case the animal requires opening physic. 



Regimen. — A good generous feeding should be allowed, with a few beans 

 for the elder patients only; and in all cases where the disorder has lasted a 

 long w.ule and the cure is effected with difficulty, a run at grass is greatly 

 conducive to complete recovery; especially if the convalescent can be allowed 

 the onvion of a field, or covered shed, lying high and dry, or the advantages 

 of the nomestead, with an allowance of corn and hay. Tliis change of regi 

 men is greatly assistant of absorption when the physicking has ceased, espe 



