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expired occalions repeated convulfive efforts of the 

 cheft to get rid of the offending caufe. A perma- 

 nent cure is feldom obtained, unlefs it is attempted 

 foon after its appearance ; in which cafe, bliftering 

 the throat, keeping the horfe in a mild regular tem- 

 perature, and giving him, night and morning, calo- 

 mel, tartar emetic, and opium, to the amount of 

 half a dram of each, will commonly remove it: 

 but, in every cafe of cough unaccompanied by 

 fever, I have given with the greateft fuccefs, even 

 in cafes of long flanding, the 



Cough Balls [page 21], which not only relieve 

 and remove this fpecies of cough, but lii^ewife alleviate 

 that which accompanies thick wind, and prevent 

 either from degenerating into broken wind. 



CRIBBITING. 

 This affedlion is prevented by placing a ftrap round 

 the upper part of the horfe's neck, tightened till the 

 cribbiting action ceafes, without hurting his breath- 

 ing. 



CURB. 



A Curb is fometimes an enlargement of the bone 

 at the back part of the hock ; at others, it is only 

 a thickening of the hgaments of this part; but in 

 either cafe it is ufually the effed of weaknefs, brought 

 on by ftrains, too early or too hard work. In the 



