Of a COUGH, Wc. 59 



will fometimes be jaw- fee, and his 

 mouth fo much clofed, that nothing can 

 be got in : but the method of cure is the 

 fame. 



CHAP. IV. 



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0/^COUGH, ^77/i ASTHMA. 



TH E confequence often of the pre- The cau- 

 ceding dilbrders injudicioufiy treat- fesofa 

 ed, are fettled habitual coughs ; which ^^^^^^/^ 

 frequently degenerate into afthmas, and ^ "^ 

 broken-wind. 



Various are the caufes afTigned for this 

 lafl: diforder, which, as merely conjectu- 

 ral, we fhall wave \ but the appearances 

 on the dilTedion of broken- winded horfes, 

 will be taken notice of in the proper 

 place. 



Nothing has more perplexed^ pra(5li- Conghf to 

 tioners than the cure of fettled coughs; be diftm- 

 the caufe of which, perhaps, has been S^^j^^ • 

 their want of attention to the different 

 fymptoms which diftinguifh one cough 

 from another : for without ftri6t ob- 



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