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in vigour and spirits to work off a slight cold 

 in his exercise, three quarters of an ounce of 

 nitrous aether in half a pint of warm beer, may 

 be given, for three successive nights: or four 

 drachms of nitre, one drachm of black pepper, 

 one drachm of anise-seed, quarter of a drachm of 

 opium, and one ounce of honey or ghoor, to be 

 put in the half pint of beer. A hot bran mash 

 should be added to the evening's grain, for these 

 three nights, and the bowels also once opened by 

 a clyster consisting of one and a half ounce of- 

 soap and three drachms of aloes, in a gallon of 

 warm water. 



SORE THROAT. 



Severe cold, or a cold neglected, may have sore 

 throat connected with the cough, which is some- 

 times a serious affair. 



Symptoms. — The food is not properly swal- 

 lowed, but lumps of grass are often quidded out 

 again. The water is not freely gulped ; he sips 

 and slavers in the dhool ; it, in fact, hurts him to 

 swallow it. The discharge from the nose is thick ; 

 mucus is coughed up, and the cough is so pain- 

 ful that he sometimes stamps with his foot. 

 There is a wheezing noise when he breathes, 



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