2gO PURGATION. 



day, where he may be kept from water. Make 

 a (Irong decoftion or infufion of oak-bark, gen- 

 tian, carduus benediclus, or the male fow- 

 thiftle, and Roman \vormwood, and keep it 

 bottled for ufe ; give half a pint to a pint in 

 every pail of water cold. Frequent rice and 

 malt maflies, cordial ball in ale. Ox or (beep s 

 gall, half a pint in ale, milk warm, twice a day. 



The following obfervations on glyfters, I 

 learned from the refpeQable authorities of Gib- 

 fon and Clarke, previouily to my experience of 

 their truth. A fyringe Ihould never be ufed, 

 as the difcharge alarms the horfe. The proper 

 apparatus is a pipe and bag. To a large ox- 

 bladder fallen a pipe ol the length of fourteen 

 or fifteen inches, made of box, or any wood 

 fufceptible of a fmooth polidi ; in fize, about 

 an inch and half diameter next the bag, and 

 of a gradual taper to the extremity, where the 

 thicknels ought fuddenly to increafe, m}^ be 

 rounded at the point; let the perforation of 

 the pipe be large enough to admit the end of 

 a common funnel, for the purpofe of papring 

 the liquor into the bag ; certain ivory pipes #n 

 ufe, are apt to wound the gut. Place the horfe, 

 if convenient, with his hinder quarters upon 

 the higheft ground. In cafe of hardened balls 

 of excrement, always back-rake, with the fmall- 

 eft hand to be procured, well oiled and nails 

 pared, previous to the adminiftration of a glyf- 



ter. 



