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the coat, and other signs sufficiently characteristic 

 of the disease. 



It will be necessary, when a dog has a bad 

 cough, first to open his bowels, by giving him an 

 ounce or more of castor oil, and then to adminis- 

 ter the following ball morning and evening. 



(RECIPE, No. 39.) 



Take — Nitre, one drachm ; 



Antimonial powder, four grains ) 

 Opium, one grain; 

 Lucatellus's balsam, one scruple : 

 Make into a ball. 



If the cough be very severe, and attended with 

 a difficulty of breathing, it will be proper to take 

 from three to five, or eight ounces of blood from 

 him, according to his size and strength. 



