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 improper substancts, I would recomrneml, that,Avlien 

 ever an active diuretic is wanted. 



The Strong Diuretic Balls [p. 15] should be 

 made use of. These are compounded with great care, 

 and will in every instance be found adequate to their 

 intended purpose, and yet perfectly safe ; rtmoving 

 pursiveness, swellings of the legs, infianied eyes, vS^c, 

 as well as loosening the hide, and pronioting condi- 

 tion. 



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

 quently the case when a horse is very weak, or when 

 he cannot be spared to lay wholly by, or when it is 

 not convenient to give a ball, ar,d likewise in those 

 cases where diuretics are given merely to promote 

 condition, then 



The Mild Diuretic Powders [page 20] are 

 peculiarly proper, being readily eaten with the food, 

 and acting so mildly as to need no coniinement. Both 

 these forms contain farther practical remarks on the 

 general eiiects of diuretics, and on the particular rules 

 necessary to be observed in their administration. 



DRINKS, or DRENCHES. 

 Many medicines are more readily and properly 

 compounded into drinks tlian into balls, and some 

 horses take the one more readily than the otiier. 

 Most grooms, ostlers, and farmers* servants, can give 

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

 therefore, in the medicines I have compounded for 

 public sale, I have, wherever remedies are to be of- 

 ten repeated, and wherever the case would admit of 

 it, adopted the form of powders; because, if the hors^ 

 refuses them in his food, they can be infused in a 



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