276 PURGATION. 



But fome horfes will retain them obflinately a 

 confiderable time, in which cafe a little water 

 may be given, or even poured down with the 

 horn, the fwallowing which afccrtains the fitua* 

 tion of the ball. In giving a drink, the horfe's 

 head iliould be held up with a forked ilick with 

 blunt points, kept for that purpofe, but by no 

 means with an iron fork, for fear of accident ; a 

 noofe to receive the fork being placed in the 

 mouth over the tulbes. Mr. Taplin recom- 

 mends to draw up the horfe's head with a pul- 

 ley, according to ancient fafhion, which I think 

 hardly fo fafe as the common method, fince if a 

 flupid fellow hold the pulley, and an accidental 

 regurgitation fiiould happen, it is probable the 

 horfe may be held faft until he is choked. I 

 have however the utmoft pleafure in declaring 

 that I efleem the account of adminiftering phyfic 

 in Mr. Taplin's Compendium, as one of the moft 

 rational and ufeful which is anywhere to be 

 found, and which bears the indubitable marks 

 of found judgment, and praftical experience. 



I have fometimes known, even in fhibles 

 where one would not have expeded fuch an 

 omilhon, that no drenching-horn has been 

 at hand, in lieu of which, a glafs bottle is always 

 the dangerous fubftitute. Every groom (hould 

 be provided with a good horn, narrow in the 

 fpout, and wide in the belly, which will hold 

 lull half a J int ; and much care fliould be 



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