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cure. If the cough is recent, apply recipe No. 41 to the throat, wellrub- 

 bed in all around and up towards the ears. Give internally the foUowincr 

 powders : 



No. 43. 1>^ Ounce gum camphor, 



1 Ounce digitalis, 



2 Ounces linseed meal, 

 Powder and mix. 



Divide into twelve powders and give one night and morning in soft 

 food. If one course does not cure, repeat it. If that proves ineffectual, 

 apply blister No. 9 instead of No. 41, to the throat and give Prof. 

 Dick's recipe as follows : 



No. 44. 1 Drachm camjihor, 



1 Drachm digitalis, 

 1 Drachm calomel, 

 1 Drachm o|)inm. 



Mix in a ball with syrup. 



Give it as one dose ; repeat it oiu-e a day for a week, then rest a week 

 and repeat. 



If the cough is ver^^ troublesome and the appetite is poor, give the 

 following : 



No. 45. 2 Drachms diluted prussic acid, 



1 Ounce tincture of camphoi-, 



3 Drachms fluid extract belladona, 

 1 Ounce tincture gentian. 



1 Ounce chlorate of potash, 

 Water to make one pint, 

 Mix. 



Give one ounce three times a day, with a syringe ; open the mouth 

 with one hand and shoot it well b;ick into the throat. Do not attempt to 

 hold a horse's head up to drench him with anything else than oil when he 

 has a cough ; for it is apt to irritate the throat and might choke him. 



For the treatment of v'oughs accompanying catarrh and laryngitis refer 

 to them. If the above treatment fails, we 

 would recommend the insertion of a seton 

 under the skin of the throat and a long run at 

 grass, if practicable. Leave the seton in 

 three or four weeks ; wash it nice and clean 

 once a day with hot water. Sometimes a 

 run at grass will do more for a bad cough 

 than all the medicine in the world. 



If the cough appears to come from the ^ s^ton in tmk thkoat ok a 

 chest, and pressure in the hollow just al)ove hokse. 



the breast bone aggravates it, apply the blisters there, and give the same 

 treatment otherwise as for the throat- 



