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imperfectly cured ; sometimes to pleurisies, or malignant fevers, which 

 have left a taint upon the lungs or other vessels ; sometimes to small 

 eruptions in the glands, which cause the lungs to be much larger than 

 they ought to be, and a quantity of phlegm, and mucilaginous juices, 

 to stuff up the glands and branches of the windpipe ; and sometimes 

 to fleshy substances engendered in the large blood-vessels ; for all these 

 things hinder a free respiration, and excite a cough. 



It is of the utmost importance to distinguish one kind of cough from 

 another, and this makes the disorder so hard to cure : for it cannot be 

 cured till the seat of the complaint be found out. 



If the cough be of long standing, attended with a loss of appetite, 

 wasting of flesh, and weakness, it denotes a Consumption : and that 

 the lungs are full of knotty, hard substances, called tubercles. When 

 the cough proceeds from phlegm, and mucilaginous matter stuffing up 

 the vessels of the lungs, the flanks have a sudden, quick motion ; the 

 horse breathes thick, but not with his nostrils distended like one that 

 is broken-winded ; his cough is sometimes moist, and sometimes dry 

 and husky; before he coughs he wheezes, and sometimes throws out of 

 his nose or mouth large pieces of white phlegm, especially after 

 drinking, or when he begins or ends his exercise; and this discharge 

 generally gives very great relief. 



Cure. — If the horse be full of flesh, take from him a moderate 

 quantity of blood. The next day give him scalded bran, and in the 

 evening the following ball: 



l oz. of Powder of Aniseeds. 



1 do. Liquorice Powder. 



1 dram of Calomel, 8 drams to an oz. 



Work them into a ball with Barbadoes tar. Give this ball the last 

 thing at night, and be careful to keep the horse out of wet, and from 

 cold water the next day. On the second morning give the following 



purge : 1 oz. of Barbadoes Aloes. 



1 do. Castile Soap. 

 i do. Powdered Ginger. 

 1 dram Oil of Aniseeds. 



Bray them together in a mortar, with a little syrup of buckthorn to 

 make them into a ball, which is to be given in the morning; and 

 plenty of warm water, and walking exercise, till it be wrought off 

 (It will not work the first day.) In three days after, give six ounces 

 of the Cordial ball in a little warm ale, fasting, and to fast two hours 

 after. Repeat the Calomel ball, physic, and cordial ball, six days 

 after, in the same manner as before. Let the horse's hay be sweet, 

 and his manger-meat scalded bran, with a spoonful of honey in each 

 feed: — let him have walking exercise in the open air, but be careful 

 of wet, and of cold water. 



When this course has been pursued two or three times, give two 

 or three ounces of the Cordial ball every morning. The above method 

 will remove most Coughs, but if it fail, try the following: 



1 oz. of Gum Ammonincum, in fine powder. 

 i do. Gum Galbanum, in powder. 



2 drams of Saffron, brayed. 



2 do Assafcedita, in powder. 



