329 APPENDI5C. 



Diuretic Balls, for the Stone and Gravel. 



(RECIPE, No. 194.) 

 Diuretic Balls. 



Take — Yellow resin, in powder, two pounds ; 



JNitre, kali prepared, juniper-berries, and Cas- 

 tile soap, of each one pound ; 



Cut the soap in thin slices, and the remainder 

 reduce into powder': 



Beat them in a mortar to a proper consistence, 

 and form them into a common-sized ball. 



These balls will be found excellent for carrying 

 oiF and cleansing the kidneys and bladder from 

 the stone and gravel. Horses are subject to the 

 stohe in the kidneys : I have known several taken 

 from that part of a considerable size : and it is 

 very common, when a horse stales, to see a large 

 quantity of sand fall on the pavement, sometimes 

 of a light brown, and from different horses the 

 colour has varied according to their different 

 habits of body. Horses subject to this disease 

 are frequently troubled with obstructions in tlie 

 tirinary passages, which bring on the cholic, or 

 gripes, and frequently terminate in an inflamma- 

 tioiK' A ball may be given every day in cases 

 ihat-ert^e ba'd; but ibnce a week -will be sulTicient 

 when given as a preventive. 



