PURGATION. 26g 



much benefit from the pecuUar faUne quaUty 

 of the water. 



Saks ufually prove a powerful dieuretic to a 

 horfe, and are fpecifically calculated for fuch, 

 as from high-feeding, and ftanding much ih the 

 liable, are opprefled with a redundancy and fu- 

 per-agglutination of the fluids, caufing inflamed 

 eyes, fwelled legs, turbid urine, which, if long 

 neglefted, feldom fail to terminate in the moft: 

 fatal difeafes. This purgative is fuperior to all 

 for producing a fine glolfy coat and high fpi- 

 rits. The falts feem to aft upon the contents 

 of the intefl:ines, and the animal humours, by a 

 certain peculiar power of diflblution, rather 

 than by the accuftomed ftimulus of other pur- 

 gatives ; and if they do not always produce thofe 

 liquid ejeftions from the horfe, which refult from 

 the more powerful cathartics, they bring away 

 an equal quantity of dung in a foftened ftate. 

 Horfes, which have had their regular aloetic 

 purges, but which, from hardinefs of conftitu- 

 tion, or defe6l of exercife, have become grofs 

 and purfive, and at a time, perhaps, when brifk 

 fervices may be required of them, are fpeedily 

 and fafely put in order, by a fliort courfe of fa- 

 lined water. But I will make the eulogium of 

 this cheap and valuable article of the materia 

 medica, which deferves the utmoft attention of 

 all fportfmen and keepers of horfes, in fev.^ 



words. 



