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phyfic. It is, however, too common to powder 

 aloes very grofsly, which alone frequently occafions 

 gripings and other bad confequences ; but when to 

 this defeft is added a bad quality in the aloes 

 themfelves, fuch as is often found in the coarfeft 

 kinds of Cape and Plantation aloes, the mifchief is 

 commonly ferious. It is ufual, likewife, to intro- 

 duce too much heating fpice, or oils, into phyfic, 

 which often inflame the bowels. 



Aloes (hould be of the very bcft kind, and very 

 finely powdered; and the quantity given, regulated 

 by the Cizc, age, and ftrength of the horfe, from three 

 drams to ten. But that no miftake may arife about 

 proportions, and that fuch phyfic may be always 

 obtained as perfons may be affured are prepared of 

 the beft drugs, and in the moft judicious manner, 

 there enters into my medicine arrangement the fol- 

 lowing varieties of purges : — Strong Purging Balls, 

 fuitable for ftrong horfes ; Milder Purging Balls, adapt- 

 ed for the firft dofe given to moft horfes, and like- 

 wife thofe that are lefler or weaker. There are alfo 



Strong Mercurial Purging Balls, and 

 Mild Mercurial Purging Balls [fee pages 

 22 and 23, medicine arrangement]. 



PURGING. See Looseness, 



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