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skin be at fault, through cold or otherwise, accompa- 

 nied by cough, the perspiration will be restored, and 

 the cough depart, by giving one or two grains emetic 

 tartar, twice a day in liquorice powder, until its effects 

 are perceptible on the skin, and the cough then di- 

 minishes. Form it into a ball, with mucilage ; and 

 when much heat of body is perceptible, though the 

 pulse do not indicate inflammatory lever, add to the 

 ball four or five drachms of nitre. 



If the bad habit of body above spoken of do not 

 appear, then the purgalive should be of a milder na- 

 ture, and given at the same interval — the following 



MILD PURGATIVE.— Aloes, 4 or 5 drachms; Castile soap, 3 

 drachms; Calomel, 1 drachm; Ginger, 2 drachms ; Oil of Carro- 

 way, 10 drops. Mucilage enough for a ball, for one dose. 



Some horses are more delicate than others, and be- 

 ing then irritable about the throat and chest, are liable 

 to contract a periodical cough, which becomes chronic 

 without due care. Such animtils should be exposed 

 as little as possible to any violent weather, or sudden 

 change of the temperature. Neither should such ten- 

 der animals, under circumstances of chronic couoh, 

 which generally affects their coats also, about the 

 chest in particular, be treated with a purgative ball, 

 even of the mildest form, but with alteratives. 



ALTERATIVE BALL.— Aloes and hard soap, 12 drachms 

 each; emetic tartar, half a drachm ; Ginger, half an ounce ; Oil of 

 Carraway, 1 drachm ; with mucilage enough to form the ball into 

 six doses. 



Give one every morning, until a loose stool is pro- 

 duced, which may haj)pen on the third or fourth mor- 

 ning, as the animal may be conditioned. The animal 

 should not be turned out of a sudden, as such an one 

 would on account of its delicacy, more likely acquire 

 a hectic cough, by neglect. 



Frequently it is that a horse has a constitutional 

 couch, or one which comes on with high feeding, or 

 a disposition to a slate in which the vessels contain 

 more humors than is agreeable to a natural state of 

 health, (called plethora,) will produce the same cough, 

 which is an effort of nature to relieve itself. In this 

 case, the administering of nitre and rosin will thin the 

 blood, and give immediate relief, as follows ; 



