504 THE COLLEGE VETERINARY PHARMACOPOEIA. 
because he was taught to do so at the college; but he very 
soon finds out that he is getting himself into sad scrapes, and he 
has recourse to the Barbadoes; or what make very good balls, 
and balls that can be depended upon, equal parts of Barbadoes 
and Cape. There is no reasoning against facts, and the fact is 
precisely as I state it. 
There has been an addition made to this formula since I 
was at the college; I use the term addition advisedly, be¬ 
cause I do not think it an improvement. The soap, borrowed 
from human medicine, u is supposed to quicken the opera¬ 
tion of the aloes, and remove their tendency to irritate the bow¬ 
els.” The aloes can scarcely be administered in a form more 
soluble than they are here prescribed. The aloes are melted 
down, they are in a state of extreme comminution, and, mingled 
with the treacle and the oil, must immediately pass into a fluid 
state in the warmth and moisture of the intestines. A ball made 
up with syrup alone might need the soap to hasten its solution; 
but the oil answers every desired purpose, while the soap being 
a diuretic, acting on the urinary organs, will divert an extra por¬ 
tion of nervous energy to them, and lessen the effect produced on 
the bowels. Except in organs between which there is a known 
sympathy, as the stomach and the skin, and the stomach and the 
bowels, the effect is most certainly and beneficially produced by 
confining ourselves to medicines that act on one set alone. 
I have always thought that another addition might be made, 
and which would prove a valuable improvement;—I mean an aro¬ 
matic in the form of a drachm of ginger or caraway. It would 
often prevent gripes, and that exhaustion and lasting debility 
which it is rarely our intention to produce in the horse. 
Cordial Mass. 
Powdered ginger 
Powdered gentian, or liquorice, each equal parts 
Treacle sufficient to form a mass.—Dose, from one to two ounces. 
There can be no objection to this formula, except the gentian 
or liquorice, as if their properties were the same, and it mattered 
not which was used. Gentian is one of the most valuable sto¬ 
machics, as well as tonics, that we have in horse medicine. 
Liquorice is mere powder of post. Gentian would often be an 
excellent adjuvant to the cordial ball; liquorice can only be useful 
to give it the requisite bulk. 
Diuretic Mass . 
Yellow resin, powdered-.-.- ...... one pound and a-half 
Hard soap - .....—.—. __.... one pound 
Pulverized nitre .one pound 
Soft soap enough to form a mass.—Dose, an ounce to an ounce and 
a half. 
