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without proper medical assistance, or from re- 

 peated attacks thereof, and improperly treated, it 

 not unfrequently brings on some obstinate dis- 

 orders ; such as chronic cough, roaring, thick wind, 

 inflammation of the lungs, farcy, and glanders, &cc. 

 A horse, I may here observe, is called a roarer, 

 when inflammation has attacked the windpipe, or 

 its branches, and caused an effusion of coagulable 

 lymph in them, which contracts these passages, 

 frequently forming bands across the air-tubes, and 

 thus impedes the free egress of the air, by which 

 a peculiar sound is produced (called roaring), and 

 which becomes more particularly audible, wheu 

 the pace of the horse is quickened. 



Treat77ient. — If the horse be in good condition, 

 take from two to three quarts of blood from him, 

 and then give him the following drink. 



(RECIPE, No. 20.) 



Take. — Aniseeds and caraway seeds, fresh powdered, of 

 each one ounce; 



Dover's powders, two draclims; 



Balsam of sulphur, two ounces : 



Beat the balsam of sulphur with the yolk of 

 an egg, then mix the powders, and give the 

 whole in a pint of warm gruel, with two table 

 spoonfuls of treacle; and repeat it every night, 

 or every other night, for three times. 



