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Specific for Distemper, No. 3 be given instead, 

 at the same intervals, and this may be continued 

 to the conclusion of the case, either alone or in 

 alternation with the Specific No. 5, for Cough. 



COUGH. 



Cough is so well known as to require no descrip- 

 tion. It is in almost all cases, a mere symptom of 

 some disease or morbid condition of the air pas- 

 sages, such as cold, bronchitis, catarrah, or other 

 more serious affections of the chest, upon the cure 

 of which it disappears. In some cases, however, 

 this affection is so slight as to occasion only cough 

 as a symptom of its existence, and the cough may 

 be said to be idiopathic. Continued cough pre- 

 disposes to inflammation, yet some horses have a 

 slight cough for years without being otherwise 

 unwell. Other coughs are connected with thick 

 wind, broken wind, glanders, worms and indi- 

 gestion. 



TREATMENT. For all chronic coughs five drops 

 of the Specific for Coughs, No. 5 morning and 

 night, are sufficient. In more complicated or re- 

 cent cases, the medicine may be given three or 

 four times per day. 



SPASM OF THE DIAPHRAGM OR MIDRIFF. 



This is a very rare disease in the horse, but may 

 occur in consequence of disorders of the stomach 

 and bowels, or violent exertions when the stomach 

 is distended with food. 



