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and foul coach or cart-horfe. Succotrine aloes 

 one ounce ; jalap one ounce ; myrrh, finely- 

 powdered, half an ounce ; cremor tartar one 

 or two ounces ; Caftile foap half an ounce ; 

 ginger, finely grated, two tea-fpoons full ; beft: 

 falad oil one large fpoon full ; make three balls 

 for one dofe, with fyrup of buckthorn and li- 

 quorice powder, or flour. 



No. 9. Mercurial purge for ditto. 

 Add to the above two drachms calomel, or if 

 the confiiitution and habit fhould require it, 

 half an ounce. 



No. 10. Mild mercurial purge. Add 

 two drachms calomel to No. 4. 



The obfervations of Mr. Blaine on the me- 

 thods of purging horfes, and the quantities of 

 drugs required, feem rather to indicate his de- 

 ference to fome favourite authority, than his 

 own praftical acquaintance with the fubje6i. 

 They may perhaps have one, not uncommon 

 effe6l, which is to excite the fmiles of the expe- 

 rienced groom, and veterinarian. Mr. Blaine, 

 very raiionally, but unfafiiionably, decides in 

 favour of fuccoirine aloes, andyet with thefe, 

 far the mod mild, makes the abfurd aflertior, 

 that " the {Ironcreft horfe fiiould never have 

 " more than eight drachms ; few require more 

 " than six ; many are purged with four." The 

 real (late of the fact is, that the mofi delicate 



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