^oS COLDS, &c. 



efforts to relieve, bleeding muft be repeatedll 

 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 which repeat the above pectoral 

 balls, with the addition of gum myrrh, Ben- 

 jamin, and Venice turpentine, each two 

 ounces; 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 that is almofl: 

 inceflant, and continually increafing upon mo- 

 tion or the leaft hurry in exercife, proceeds 

 equally from irritability and the adion of the 

 llimy mucus upon the glaras in refpiration, as 

 well as the vifcldity and cohefion of the blood 

 through the finer paffages. This kind of cough 

 I have ever obferved to fubmit with much lefs 

 difficulty than the asthmatic, requiring only 

 fteady and regular perfeverance In the plan 

 now laid down to obtain a certain, and^ in all 

 probability, a fpeedy cure. The improvement 

 upon thQ cora^'al ia/l oi Bracken, ((b rigidly 



adhered 



