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pared medicine arrangement have tliefe advantages f 

 they likewife retain their virtue any length of time, 

 are mofl intimately mixed, never harden, and are of 

 a proper fize and convenient form. Thofe intended 

 for horfes are, mercurial and common Purging BallSy 

 Diuretic Balls, Cordial Balls, Cough Balls, Farcy 

 Balls, Fever Cordial Balls, Ckolic Balls: thofe for 

 dogs are, Purging Balls, and Worm Balls. 



BLEEDING. 



Sweats, diuretics and purges, are all particular 

 modes of leflening the quantity of blood in the body, 

 for what is removed from the body by them is forced 

 to be fupplied by the blood ; but bleeding is a more 

 quick and effedlive mode of leflening the blood, and 

 has this difference from the former, that it removes 

 all the parts of this fluid at once, and is, therefore, 

 ufed to reduce the conftitution ; whereas they only 

 remove the watery parts, and, therefore, can be 

 fafely applied in almoft all cafes, when bleeding 

 would weaken too much. In all great and violent 

 inflammations the blood veflels appear diftended with 

 blood ; bleeding, therefore, in thefe cafes, by reliev- 

 ing the veflels from their diftention, tends to remove 

 the inflammation. Hence bleeding is the mofl; ef- 

 fective means of treating rifing of the lights, or in- 

 flammation of the lungs ; red cholic, or inflamma- 

 mation of the bowels ; red water, or inflammation of 



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