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tijem from spoiling : this is best clone by compound^ 

 mg them in such a M'ay as neither to liaiden, mouMer, 

 nor ferment. The bails entering into my ready pre- 

 pared medicine arrangement have these advantages; 

 they likewise retain their virtue any length of time, 

 are most intimately mixed, never harden, and are 

 of a proper size and convenient form. Those in-ended 

 for horses are, mercurial and common Purging Bulls, 

 Diuretic Balls, Cordial Balls, Cough Balls, Faraj 

 Balls, Fever Cordial Balls, Cholic Balls: those for 

 clogs are Purging Balls only, as tlie other remedies 

 are purposely made in the form of powders, to leave 

 it optional with tlie giver what form he may chuse aS' 

 the most convenient. 



BLEEDING, 



Sweats, diuretics, and purges, are all particular 

 modes of lessening the quantity of blood in the body,, 

 for what is removed from the body by them is forced 

 to be supplied %y the blood ; but bleeding is a more 

 quick and effective mode of lessening the blood ; and 

 has this difference IVom the former, that it removTS 

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

 used to reduce the constitution ; whereas the others 

 only remove the watery parts,, and therefore can be 

 safely applied hi ahnost all cases, when bleeding 

 would weaken too much. In all great and violent in- 

 flammations, the blood vessels appear distended with 

 blood ; bleeding, therefore, in these Cc'ses, by reliev- 

 in2 the vessels from their distention, tends to remove 

 the inflammation. Hence bleeding is the most effec- 

 tual means of treating risiiig of the lights, or iuflamma- 

 lion of the lungs ; red cholic, or infianmiation of tlie 



