208 COLDS. 



If the complaint should continue predo- 

 minant in all its symptoms, notwithstanding 

 these efforts to reheve, bleeding mu.^t be 

 repeated ; two doses of mercurial physic may 

 be given eight days apart, and prepared by 

 the addition of a drachm and a half of ca- 

 lomel to either of the balls (under the arti- 

 cles of purging) best calculated for the horse's 

 strength and con lition. After which repeat 

 the above pectoral balls, with the addition 

 of gum myrrh, Benjamin and Venice turpen- 

 tine, each two ounces ; dividing the mass 

 into balls of two ounces each, repeating them 

 every morning till the above proportion (with 

 these additions) are totally consumed. 



The long loud hollow cough that is al- 

 most incessant, and continually increasing 

 upon MOTION, or the least hurry in exercise, 

 proceeds equally from irritability and the ac- 

 tion of the slimy mucus upon the glands in 

 respiration, as well as the viscidity and cohe- 

 sion of the blood through the finer passages. 

 This kind of cough I have ever observed to 

 submit with much less difficulty than the 

 ASTHMATIC, requiring only steady and re- 

 gular perseverance in the plan now laid down 

 to obtain a certain, and, in all probability^ 



