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the first attack be unremitted, and the remedies applied 

 in tur nto each variation of the symptoms. If these 

 are accompanied by the swe'.lings and soreness of the 

 throat and ghinds, spoken of in the preceding page, 

 the cough will generally cease when those symptoms 

 are removed by the treatment there di reeled ; but if 

 not, the cough musi be considered as a simple disease. 

 We can but imperfectly distinguish between some ca- 

 ses of ill-cured catarrh, or ihe chronic cough, and the 

 incipient cough, or a I'lesh cold, the practitioner would 

 do well, in ca-.es of doubt, when he finds one remedy 

 to fail to try others. 



When animals appear to be unable to raise the 

 phleghm, bleeding will (^tiect this ; but, when bleeding 

 is n(jt otherwise necessary, the drenches No. 1 and 2, 

 below, will afibrd relief. In order to enable the lungs 

 to dischargee more copiously, give No. 1 : 



EXPECTORAL BALLS— No. 1.— Sulphur, half an ounce; . 

 A3afa?tida, 1 ounce; Liquorice powder, 1 ounce; 

 Venice Turpentine, 1 ounce. 



Mix for four doses, and give one on each of four 

 succeeding nights. See his exercise be moderate, and 

 allow him a cooling regimen, boiled oats, bran mash- 

 es, &c. And give the following once or twice a day: 



EXPECEORAL BALL— No. 2.— Powdered Squills, 2 drachms. 



Gum Ammoniacum, and powdered epecac, each 4 drachms ; 



Opium, 4 drachms ; ginger and alspice, each 1 ounce ; 



Balsam of Sulphur, 4 ounces Mix for six balls, with Castile 

 soap, beaten up with mucilage, molasses or syrup. 



If the regimen cannot be attended to properly, bis 

 bowels must be kept open by mid laxatives ; or if cos- 

 tiveness prevailed when the cough first came on, sim- 

 ply opening the bowels will then procure ease, if it do 

 not effect a cure. This may be attained by giving, in 

 three or four days, the following: 



LAXATIVE BALL.— Aloes and Epecac, 1 1.2 drachms each. 

 Mix with liq^uorice powders and mucilage, for one dose. 



These medicines, and every modification of them, 

 it is desirable should be tried in succession, as ihe seat 

 of the disorder is so very various and uncertain, that 

 the partial good that one may effect, will frequently 

 be aided by another. To this end, the following ball 

 and drenches have been prescribed and used with suC" 

 cess: 



