286 COUGH. — CHRONIC COUGH. 



COUGH.— CHRONIC COUGH. 



" A Cough is a sonorous and sudden expulsion of air from 

 the hmgs, and is well known to be an accompanying symptom 

 of a maltiplicity of diseases."* 



Horses have almost as great a variety of coughs as there 

 are known diseases of the respiratory organs. 1st — there is 

 the loud roaring cough, or cavernous cough, peculiar to horses 

 affected with E-oaring. 2nd — the loud, deep, hard rattling 

 cough, peculiar to some forms of Chronic Cough, arising from 

 a portion of the lungs being permanently solid. 3rd — the short, 

 hacking Cough, peculiar again to other diseased states of the 

 respiratory organs of a chronic character. 4th — the soft, puffing 

 kind of Cough, present in Broken "Wind, and which is generally 

 preceded by a hard, rough, grunting sound, and accompanied 

 with a sudden escape of flatus at the rectum. 5th — the dull, 

 heavy, moist Cough, peculiar to a patient affected with Pleurisy, 

 or with Typhoid Pneumonia. 6th — the spasmodic hacking 

 Cough, peculiar to a horse affected with Laryngitis, or into 

 whose larynx a portion of fluid may have fallen during an act 

 of deglutition. 7th — the soft, moist Cough, occasionally emitted 

 by a horse when in a state of chill. 8th — the clear, loud, moist 

 Cough, sometimes heard from horses in health, or at the time 

 they are recovering from the effects of Catarrh, either of a Com- 

 mon or Epizootic character, so that people who may require to 

 know from a veterinary surgeon what is good " for a oss wot 

 coughs" (no uncommon question), really mean to ask what will 

 cure tliat which causes the Cough. 



Cough, especially in its chronic forms, differs widely in 

 different horses, as to the conditions under which it is emitted. 

 In some horses it is almost constantly manifest ; in others it 

 appears at regular intervals. The Cough is produced in some 



* Hooper's Medical Dictionary. 



