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wlilcli lias given rise to the <?ustom of drinking brandjr 

 when we have been exposed to cold or wet. When, 

 therefore, I have, in my own stable practice, feared a 

 cold, I give a cordial ball, a malt mash, and clothe 

 warmly for the night ; and by this means I have sel- 

 dom found a cold or cough come on. 



The symptoms of catarrh or cold are a dull, heavy 

 aspect; a cough at first harsh and dry, afterwards 

 rattling and moist ; the appetite is lost, and frequently 

 the drink is refused, and the flanks heave. If the 

 breathing becomes very difficult, the inside of the 

 nose very red, and the legs and ears cold, inflamma- 

 tion of the lungs, or, as the farriers term it, rising of 

 the lights, may be suspected ; and if without these the 

 dejection should be considerable, with a hot slimy 

 mouth, the case may prove troublesome from its de- 

 generating, into a regular fever. But when the ap- 

 petite fails but little, the heat of the body being re- 

 gular and moderate, and the animal coughing strong, 

 and snorting out moisture or matter from his nose, 

 no danger is present. 



Ail colds are, in the first instance, to be treated 

 as fevers and inflammations. If the symptoms run 

 high, bleed ; open the body by raking and clysters, 

 and give mashes, but abstain from much corn; clothe 

 the head, and keep the stable regularly warm, but not 

 hot; and by no means expose the animal, even for 

 exercise, and avoid giving cold water. Night and 

 morning give, mixed with a mash, one of the 



Cough and Fever Powders [page 19]. If 

 there is much cough, treat as under Cough. When 

 the disease has lasted some day:*, if the horse appear* 



