t,0 REMEDIES WHEN VARIED, BENEHCTAL. 



covurh ; for -f not cured at once, it baffles all our efforts for a long while, and 

 ultimately becomes what is denominated (from the length of time it has last- 

 ed) a CHRONIC COUGH. But no absolute necessity exists for considering these 

 as separate or distinct diseases, the one being but a prolongation or fastening 

 of the other on the system, as described at page 85 below : therefore should 

 Dur attention to the first attack be unremitted, and the remedies applied in 

 turn to each variation of the symptoms. If these are accompanied by the 

 swellings and soreness of the throat and glands, just spoken of, the cough will 

 generally cease, when these symptoms are removed ; but if not, the cough must 

 be considered as a simple disease, and be treated accordingly. By the way, 

 seeing that after all our care and anxious examination, we can but imperfectly 

 distinguish between some cases of ill-cured catarrh, or the chronic cough, and 

 the incipient cough, or a fresh cold, the practitioner would do well, in cases of 

 doubt, when he finds one of those remedies fail to afford the expected relief, to 

 try another, and another, for example. 



When the cough continues, and there is reason to apprehend, from tne 

 frequent and violent efforts of the animal to expel the mucous secretion, that 

 this is thick or viscid, and does not come away, though the animal evidently 

 sneezes for that purpose, — the lungs must be relieved by softening the agglu- 

 tination; otherwise termed "cutting the phlegm." Venesection always ef- 

 fects this end ; but, when blood-letting is not rendered otherwise necessary, 

 the drenches Nos. 1 and 2 will afford relief. As the cough always becomes 

 more and more troublesome as the discharge lessens of itself, or ceabes alto- 

 gether, we may conclude some lurking virus that has fixed upon the lungs is 

 the immediate cause of the cough. In order to enable the lungs to throw ofl 

 this cause by a more copious discharge, give the 



Expectorant Ball. — No. 1. 



Sulphur, half an ounce. 

 Asafoetida, 1 ounce. 

 Liquorice powder, 1 ounce. 

 Venice turpentine, 1 ounce. 



Mix foi four doses, and give one on each of four succeeding nights. See his 

 exercise be moderate, and allow him the cooling regimen before referred to 

 (page 67), as proper for convalescent horses after inflammatory attacks. 



Expectorant Ball. — No. 2. 



Powdered squills, 2 drachms. 

 Gum ammoniacum, 4 drachms. 

 Powdered ipecacuanha, 4 drachms. 

 Opium, 4 drachms. 

 Ginger and allspice, of each 1 ounce. 

 Balsam of sulphur, 4 ounces. 



Mix, for SIX balls, with Castile soap, 2 ounces, beaten up with mucilage ; 

 treacle, or syrup : to be given once or twice a day. 



If this regimen can not be followed by reason of want of attendants, his 

 ^jowels at least should be kept in a proper open state by mild laxatives ; or, 

 if costiveness prevailed when the cough first came on, simply opening the 

 bowels will then procure ease, if it do not effect a cure. This muy be at- 

 tained by giving, for three or four days, 



