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the steam up his nostrils, which will cause a running from 

 them, and relieve him very much. I have known asarabacca, 

 dried and rubbed to powder, and blown up the nostrils, to 

 cause a discharge ; for when a horse has caught a violent 

 cold, he is often troubled with a pain in his head, which a 

 good discharge at the nose is very likely to cui-e. For the 

 same purpose the horse should be warmly clothed, especially 

 about the head, neck, and throat, as it has a tendency to pro- 

 mote a running at the nostrils. 



By this simple method, with proper care, hot mashes, and 

 warm water, most colds may be cured ; and as soon as the 

 horse begins to feed heartily, and snorts after coughing, an 

 hour's exercise every day will greatly hasten the cure. If 

 the legs swell, and the horse be full of flesh, rowels are 

 necessary. 



A Cough, and Asthma. 



Among all diseases to which this noble creature is sub- 

 ject, none has given more perplexity to Farriers than a 

 settled Cough ; indeed it too often defies all the attempts of 

 art, and the horse frequently becomes Asthmatical, or Broken- 

 winded. 



Causes. — The causes are various. Sometimes it is owing 

 to colds imperfectly cured ; sometimes to pleurisies, or 

 malignant fevers, which have left a taint upon the lungs or 

 other vessels ; sometimes to small eruptions in the glands, 

 which cause the lungs to be much larger than they ought to 

 be, and a quantity of phlegm, and mucilaginous juices, which 

 stuff up the glands and branches of the windpipe ; and some- 

 times to fleshy substances engendered in the large blood 

 vessels ; for all these things hinder a free respiration, and 

 excite a cough. It is of the utmost importance to distin- 

 guish one kind of cough from another, and this makes the 

 disorder so hard to cure : for it can not be cured till the 

 seat of the complaint be found out. 



K the cough be of long standing, attended with a loss of 

 appetite, wasting of flesh, and weakness, it denotes a Con- 

 sumption ; and that the lungs are full of knotty, hard sub- 

 stances, called tubercles. ^\Tien a cough proceeds from 

 phlegm, and mucilaginous matter, stuffing up the vessels of 

 the lungs, the flanks have a sudden, quick motion : the horse 

 breathes quick, but not ^vith his nostrils distended like one 

 that is broken-winded ; his cough is sometimes moist, and 

 sometimes dry and husky ; before he coughs he wheezes, 

 and sometimes throws out o-f his nose or mouth large pieces 



