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membranes of the nofe, which fometimes extends to 

 the gullet, and produces fore throat. As it attacks 

 with more or lefs violence, the fever is more or lefs, 

 and the difeafe becomes formidable or trifling. 



All colds are, in the firft inftance, to be treated 

 as fevers and inflammations. If the fymptoms run 

 high, bleed, open the body, give maflies, clothe the 

 head, and keep the liable regularly warm, but not 

 hot ; and by no means exppfe the animal even for 

 cxercife. Night and morning give mixed with a 



mafh one of the 



Fever Powders [page 26]. If there is much 

 cough, treat as under Cough. When the difeafe has 

 lafted fome days, if the horfe appears weak and 

 faint, as is fometimes the cafe, give malt mafhes, 

 and every morning one of the 



Cordial Fever Balls [page 21]. By this 

 means the cure will be foon completed; and by 

 keeping him to this diet, and not expoflng him too 

 early, he will avoid being fo completely out of con- 

 dition, as is ufually the cafe after long colds. 



CHOLIC SPASMODIC, called GRIPES or 



FRET. 



The cholics of horfes are of two kinds, extremely 

 different to each other in their nature, and totally 

 oppofite to each other in their treatment, and hence 

 requiring the utmoft nicety of diftindion j but which 



