274 PURGATION. 



neatnefs. I always form a purge into two 

 balls, frequently into three, merely rolling the 

 compofition up in a piece of old newfpaper, 

 twifted at each end, and fraearing it with fweet 

 oil. • 



Very numerous have been the accidents, 

 from the too large fize and hardnefs of horfe- 

 balls : Hepheflion, the race-horfe, according to 

 my remembrance, was choaked with one, and 

 very nearly killed. Two or three years fince, a 

 horfe was choaked by a ftale bail, at the infirma:- 

 ry of a celebrated veterinary furgeon, who per- 

 formed on him the ancient operation of bron- 

 chotomy, but without being able to fave the 

 patient. Another furgeon, this year, in Berk- 

 fhire, (I think a Mr. Deane) had better fuccefs ; 

 faving the life of a horfe by the fame means, 

 which had been choaked by the accidental (lip- 

 ping down into the gullet, of a fmall apple, 

 given him by a boy. 



The horfe being, prepared the day before, 

 by a bran mafli or two, (hould have his 

 phyfic in the morning, falling, between live 

 and eight as the feafon may fuit. Should the 

 animal be very grofs, foul, and full of blood, 

 and any danger be apprehended from his Hate 

 of body, a pretty large malh of bran, without 

 corn, may be given him in the middle of the 

 preceding day, only a fmall lock of hay at 

 niiiht, a fmall bran mafli early in the morn- 



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