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contraft, and the horfe will not be liable to 

 relapfe, on expol'ure to the air. Spirit, or fait 

 of hartfhorn, in warm ale, fweetened with fyrup 

 of poppies, given twice a day, is an excellent 

 medicine on the firft attack of cold catarrh ; 

 but great care ought to be had that the dofe of 

 hartihorn be not too large, left it excoriate the 

 throat of the horfe and choke him. Two or 

 three table fpoonfuls of the fpirit may be given 

 for a dofe, in a quart or three pints of beer : a 

 proper judgment may be made by the tafte of 

 the drench. Or frefti ground ginger, two to 

 four drachms, is an excellent fubftitute for the 

 hartihorn. 



Should the difeafe, either from negleft, the 

 common caufe, or fudden accident, be of a 

 more confirmed and ferious nature ; fliould 

 there be a confiderable difcharge from the nof- 

 trils, an inflammation of the glands under the 

 jaws, attended with lofs of appetite ; medical 

 aid muft be called in, or the bufmefs may be 

 very tedious, befides the rifl<. of leaving in the 

 conftitution, the feeds of certain of the moft 

 dangerous chronic difeafes. 



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In catarrh, the firft and grand confideration 

 is, whether the patient be chilly or feverifli, in 

 the language of the ancients, whether the dif- 

 eafe arife from a hot or a cold caufe ; a dif- 

 tinftion which Bartlet has not made, who in- 

 veighed fo much againfl the hot method of 



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