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efforts to relieve, BLEEDING muft be repeated; 

 two dofes of mercurial phyfic may be given 

 eight days apart, and prepared by the addition 

 of a drachm and a half of calomel to either of 

 the balls (under the articles of purging) beft 

 calculated for the horfe's ftrength and condi- 

 tion.. After v^hich repeat the above pedtoral 

 balls, with the addition of gum myrrh, Ben- 

 jamin, and Venice turpentine, each two 

 ounces j dividing the mafs into balls of two 

 ounces each, repeating them every morning 

 till the above proportion (with thefe addi- 

 tions) are totally confumed. 



The long loud hollow cough thatlsalmofl 

 inceilant, and continually increafmg upon mo- 

 tion or the leaft hurry in exercife, proceeds 

 equally from irritability and the adtion of the 

 flimy m.ucus upon the glands in refpiration, as 

 well as the vifcidity and cohefion of the blood 

 through the finer pafiages. This kind of cough 

 I have ever obferved to fubmit with much lefs 

 difficulty than the asthmatic, requiring only 

 fleady and regular perfeverance in the plan now 

 laid down to obtain a certain, and, in all 

 probability, a fpeedy cure. The improvement 

 upon the cordial ball of Bracken, (fo rigidly 



adhered 



