ON MOCHA OR BOJMBAY ALOES. 
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common practice of the College. Some had exercise on the follow¬ 
ing morning, and others not. This arose from the nature of the 
lameness or disease under which they were labouring. 
The form of combination was that usually adopted here, no car¬ 
minative being added; and it appears that none is required, for there 
was not, even when its action was the most powerful, the slightest 
appearance of pain, or of constitutional disturbance, beyond that 
always induced by a purgative. . 
CAPE 
ALGETIC EXTRACT. 
No. 
Time required to 
cause action. 
Exercised or 
not. 
Evacua¬ 
tions. 
Action. 
Length of time kept up. 
1 
19 hours. 
Exercised 
Several 
Free 
The next morning the faeces 
were becoming consolidated 
2 
24 ditto 
Ditto 
3 or 4 
Free 
Ditto 
3 
24 ditto 
No exercise 
Ditto 
Moderate 
Ditto 
4 
27 ditto 
Exercised 
Ditto 
Ditto 
Ditto 
5 
27 ditto 
Ditto 
Ditto 
Ditto 
Ditto 
6 
Scarcely acted 
No exercise 
— 
at all. 
BOMBAY 
ALGETIC EXTRACT. 
1 
15 hours 
No exercise 
Many 
Free 
Purging continued through- 
out the next day 
2 
17 ditto 
Exercised 
3 or 4 
Moderate 
Faecal matter the next morn- 
ing still in a relaxed state 
3 
17 ditto 
No exercise 
5 or 6 
Free 
Ditto 
4 
18 ditto 
Ditto 
3 or 4 
Moderate 
Ditto 
5 
20 ditto 
Ditto 
5 or 6 
Ditto 
Ditto 
G 
27 ditto 
Ditto 
Relaxed 
Next morning faeces be- 
only 
coming consolidated. 
It will be seen, by the above table, that the preponderance is de¬ 
cidedly in favour of the Bombay extract. The faeces were in all the 
cases more fluid than in those in which the Cape extract had been ad¬ 
ministered, and the action on the bowels appeared to be longer con¬ 
tinued. No. 1 of the Cape, which operated both soonest and freest, 
was a small horse; while No. 1 of the Mocha, the action of whicli 
much exceeded that ot’tlie (Jape, was a large horse, and, from labour- 
