308 PURGATION. 



ounces ; brimflone eight ounces : grind them 

 together to an impalpable powder. This me- 

 dicine has great effeft in farcy, inveterate 

 mange, or obflinate dry coughs. 



CHAP. VIII. 



ON CATARRH EPIDEMIC COLD OR DIS- 

 TEMPER — RHEUMATISM — GLANDERS — 

 BROKEN WIND. 



/^ATARRH is either local or univerfal in 

 ^^ the body ; and in its nature and effefts, 

 either cold and chilling, or hot and febrile : 

 colds are fometimes epidemic, or general, 

 amongfl men and animals, from a malignant 

 difpofition of the atmofphere ; this influenza 

 amongft horfes, and the varieties of the horfe, 

 is vulgarly ftyled the distemper; a catarrhal 

 difcharge, or running at the nofe, of long Hand- 

 ing, is denominated the glanders. 



The occafion of that accident, which is term- 

 ed catching coLDjfeems to be an unfuitable, 

 too fudden, or too long continued expofure of 

 the body, or any part thereof, to the bracing 

 influence of the external air, by which the 



emundories. 



