74. 



The Diuretic Balls [page 21] fliould be, 

 made ufe of. Thefe are compounded with great care, 

 and will in every inftance be found adequate to their 

 intended purpofe, and yet perfedly fafe ; removing pur- 

 fivenefs, fwellings of the legs, inflamed eyes, &c., as 

 well as loofening the hide, and promoting condition. 



When a more mild diuretic is wanted, as is fre- 

 quently the cafe when a horfe is very weak, or when 

 he cannot be fpared to lay wholly by, or when it 

 is not convenient to give a ball, and likewife in thofe 

 cafes where diuretics are given merely to promote 

 condition, then 



The Mild Diuretic Powders [page 27] are 

 peculiarly proper, being readily eaten with the food, 

 and ading fo mildly as to need no confinement. Both 

 thefe forms contain further pradical remarks on the 

 general efifefts of diuretics, and on the particular rules 

 neceflary to be obferved in their adminiflration. 



DRINKS, or DRENCHES. 

 Many medicines are more readily and properly 

 compounded into drinks than into balls, and fome 

 horfes take the one more readily than the other. 

 Moft grooms, oftlers, and farmers* fervants, can give 

 a drink, but few are expert at delivering a ball; 

 therefore, in the medicines I have compounded for 

 public falc, 1 have, wherever remedies arc to be of- 

 ten repeated, and wherever the cafe would admit of 



