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COUGH. 



A cough is a common complaint among dogs. It 

 is almoft a conftant attendant ondiftemper, and it is 

 alfo frequent on taking cold: but there is a cough 

 diftindl from thefe, that attacks dogs as they grow old, 

 particularly thofe who are highly fed, have had little 

 exercife, and have grown too fat. It refembles, in 

 a very flight degree, the human afthma, and is known 

 to fome fportfmen by the name oihiijk: among others, 

 this term fignifies the cough that accompanies dif- 

 temper. In many cafes there appears an enlarge- 

 ment of fome of the contents of the chefl, as of the 

 heart or lungs; in others, difle6tion fliews nothing. 



When it firft appears, I have feldom failed to cure 

 it by blifters to the throat and chefl, united with pro- 

 per alteratives ; but when it has been fome time con- 

 firmed, it is more difficult to remove: however, by 

 great attention, even in this ftate, it has been re- 

 lieved. 



DISTEMPER. 



For information on this head, 1 would refer the 

 enquirer to the Treatife on the Diftemper [price Is. J, 

 which little work has paflbd through two editions 

 within two years. The treatment and cure of this 

 fatal difeafe arc there detailed at length. It may be 

 purchafed at nny refpcttable medicine venders, as 

 well as the Medicinal Powders [page 27] for this 



