50 avery's own farrier. 



in small doses. If the above is persevered in, it is a 

 certain cure. I never knew it to fail to cure the worst 

 of chronic coughs. When the wild cabbage can not be 

 obtained, you may use the lobelia seed, as a substitute, 

 with good success. As a preventive from its running 

 into glanders, use the ointment on the membrane of the 

 nose, given under that head, and it will also aid in cur- 

 ing this. 



CHAPTER V. 



LUNG FEVER. 



" It has been remarked, and, in truth it will apply to all latitudes 

 and meridians, and to all countries, tropical and frigid, savage 

 and civilized, that it is not what men get that makes them rich, 

 but what they save." 



There are a great many horses lost by this disease 

 that might be saved. The lung fever always makes its 

 appearance by a chill; the horse will shake and tremble 

 like a person with the ague. While the chill is on, give 

 him a strong dose of the hot drops, or of the pepper tea; 

 or, if this be not at hand, give him half a pint of fine salt, 

 dissolved in a quart of warm water. This will entirely 

 relieve him of the chill and create a perspiration; but 

 he will appear very sick for a short time, and then re- 

 vive and be quite well, when it will be well to give him 

 a dose of the peppermint and camphor. But if you 

 should not discover him while the chill is on, and the 

 fever has commenced, it will require different treatment 

 altogether. Then you must bleed copiously; it is the 

 only alternative to save the lungs from becoming tainted* 



