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described in the preceding chapter, Although there is 

 this difference, in cases of catarrh, by holding your ear 

 near the nostrils, and sometimes at a considerable distance, 

 you will hear a rattling or gurgling sound in the head and 

 throat, the flanks work more, while the horse appears to 

 be in great distress at times, and will throw out of the 

 nose and mouth chunks of white, tough phlegm, that 

 frequently appear while he is in the act of drinking, 

 with his head down, which relieves him very much for a 

 time. A settled cough, alone, has given more perplexity 

 than any other one disorder of the horse, and in fact it 

 has often defied all attempts of art, and baffled the skill 

 of the most experienced, and the horse has frequently 

 become asthmatical or broken winded, in spite of all 

 their efforts to the contrary. Sometimes it is owing to 

 pleurisies or malignant fevers, which have left a taint on 

 the lungs or other vessels; sometimes to small eruptions 

 in the glands, which cause the lungs to enlarge, and a 

 quantity of tough phlegm and mucilaginous juices to 

 stuff up the glands and branches of the wind pipe, and 

 sometimes to fleshy substances engendered in the large 

 blood-vessels, for all these things hinder a free respira- 

 tion and excite a cough. 



It is very difficult, sometimes, to determine what kind 

 of a cough you have to contend with, which makes the 

 cure more difficult and uncertain. If the cough be of 

 long standing, attended with loss of appetite and flesh, 

 and a general weakness, it denotes consumption, and that 

 the lungs are full of tubercles. When the cough pro- 

 ceeds from phlegm and mucilaginous matter, stuffing up 

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



