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twelve hours, mixed in half a tea-cupful of molasses and a pint of warm water, 

 as a drench, until it physics. In five or six days, give it again the same way. 



The pin-worms, which sometimes inhabit the rectum, or last 

 gut, may be brought away by an injection of strong salt-water, 

 or a tea of tobacco. 



DISEASES OF THE BEEATHING ORGANS. 

 COMMON COUGH. 



This is more properly called chronic cough. It is the dregs 

 or remains of other diseases of the air-passages, in most cases. 

 It is a disease which should not be neglected, for it will, very 

 likely, run into more serious disease. Chronic cough must 

 not be confounded with the cough which occurs in other dis- 

 eases, as catarrh, influenza, bronchitis, strangles, etc. 



Sym;ptoms. — This affection is known by a continued cough, 

 mostly of a harsh, dry character, but, in some cases, a thick 

 mucus is thrown out from the nose. The general health of 

 the animal is not usually much aifected. The disease is, as 

 before remarked, the result of, or remains after, the disappear- 

 ance of more severe diseases of the lungs and air-passages. 

 In these cases, in which irritation of the air-passages is the 

 cause of the disease, the cough will be excited when the horse 

 drinks cold water, or is taken out into the cold air, and there 

 will be some mucus discharged in most cases. When the 

 cough results from worms, it will be soft, and accompanied 

 with a frothy mucus; the horse's coat will be staring, and 

 other symptoms of worms be present. A cough resulting 

 from deranged digestion is harsh and hard, and very violent, 

 and generally occurs after eating, when the stomach la dis- 

 tended and pressing on the lungs. 



