98 BALL OR PILLS. 



BALL OR PILLS. 



The usual and most convenient mode of ad- 

 ministering medicines, is in the form of halls 

 compounded with sweet oil. Balls should never 

 weigh more than li ounces, otherAvise they will 

 he so large as not to pass down the gullet. They 

 should not he more than one inch in diameter, 

 and three inches in length. The mode of de- 

 livering halls is not difficult to acquire. The 

 horse should he hacked in the stall, the tongue 

 dra^-n out gently with the left hand on the off 

 side of the mouth, not continuing to pull, hut 

 hy pressing the finger against the lower jaw. 

 The hall heing now taken hetween the tips of 

 the fingers of the right hand, is passed rapidly 

 up the mouth as near the j^talate as possihle, un- 

 til it reaches the root of the tongue. It is then 

 delivered with a slight jerk, the hand heing im- 

 mediately withdrawn. Its passage should he 

 watched down the left side of the throat; if it 

 does not pass down a slight tap under the jaw 

 or chin, will generally cause the horse to swallow 

 it, or a few gulps of water will convey in into 

 the stomach. Very few balls should be kept 

 made. 



