S46, DISEASES OF })OGS : THE COUGH. 



while in other cases, less severe, one will be suffi- 

 cient, if the other means be strictly attended to. 



When this aflfection of the lungs is attended 

 with a severe cougli, and gradual wasting of his 

 body, the following ball must be given. 



(RECIPE, No. 38.) , 



Take— Colombo root, in powder, two scruples ; 

 Elecampane, one scruple; 

 Squills, in powder, four grains ; 

 Opium, one grain ; 

 Lucatellus's balsam, one drachm : 

 Make into a ball, and give one every day. 



CHAP. xy. 



OF A COUGH. 



Dogs are subject to coughs independent of the 

 distemper or worms. The cough that arises from 

 exposure to cold, or cold and wet, after a dog has 

 been overheated, is more constant and severe, than 

 what occurs in distemper, and is easily distin- 

 guished from the cough of distemper, by its not 

 being accompanied with a gradual wasting of the 

 body, and other symptoms peculiar to that disease. 

 The cough in worms is attended with staring of 



