6q Of a COUGH, and 



fervaiice thereof, it is impoffible to find out 

 the true method of cure. 



dun''''^* . Thus if a horfe's cough is of long {land« 

 ing, attended with lofs of appetite, waft- 

 ing of flefh, and weaknefs, it denotes a 

 ccnfumption •, and that the lungs are full 

 of knotty, hard fubftances, called tuber- 

 cles, which have often been difcovered on 

 difledlion. ^/i^ Confumption. 



The fiojns The following fip;ns denote when the 



r • n DO 



ot a moiit cough proceeds from phlegm, and (limy 

 ^^'^S^' matter, that ftop up the velTels of the 

 lungs. 



The horfe's flanks have a fudden quick 

 motion ; he breaches thick, but not with 

 his noftrils open, like a horfe in a fever, 

 or that is broken < winded ; his cough is 

 fometimes dry and hufky, fometimes 

 moift, before which he wheezes, rattles 

 in the throat, and fometimes throws out 

 of his nofe and mouth great gobs of white 

 phlegm, efpecially after drinking, or 

 when he begins or ends his exercife, which 

 difcharge commonly gives great relief. 

 Some luch horfes wheeze and rattle to 

 fuch a degree, and are fo thick-winded, 

 that they can fcarce move on, till they 

 have been out fome time in the air ; 



though 

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