42 COLDS AND COUGHS. 



This will be found a most excellent drink ; it 

 will restore the obstructed perspiration, and thus 

 relieve the effects of the cold, by which it fre- 

 quently throws off the disease after the first drink 

 or two is given. A warm bran mash should be 

 given about an hour after the drink, and repeated 

 two or three times a day, which will tend to 

 relax the bowels, and favour the operation of 

 the medicines. It is very important to know 

 that all the seeds and roots are fresh powdered 

 at the time of using, as they will not retain 

 their quality in a powdered state ; the essential 

 oil will soon evaporate, and become of but little 

 use. It is also worthy of the horse-keeper's 

 attention, not to purchase seeds and roots in a 

 powdered state from any druggist's shop, as the 

 latter not unfrequently purchase them in that 

 state from town at one-half the money the seeds 

 or roots are worth, before they are reduced to 

 powder : it will, therefore, be easy for every one 

 to judge of their quality. All the articles that 

 pass under the denomination of horse-powders, are 

 greatly abused by sophistication. 



But to return to colds and coughs. — As soon as 

 the horse begins to make some effort to cough, let 

 the following drink be given, which will be found 

 a most excellent pectoral medicine. 



