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however, the coat is unthrifty; the flanks tucked up; 

 if there be mucus around the anus; and particularly 

 if worms are discharged in the faeces, it will be proper 

 to put the connexion between the worms and the 

 cough to the test. 



RECIPE (No. 31). 



Worm Ball. 



Take — Emetic tartar, two drachms ; 

 Linseed meal, four drachms : 



Make them into a ball with palm oil. 



One of these halls should be administered every 

 morning, a quarter of an hour before the horse is fed. 

 A dozen may be thus given, and afterwards a physic- 

 ball. If the cough is lessening but not gone, another 

 dozen of the balls will probably remove it ; but, even 

 should no benefit have been obtained, it neverthe- 

 less may be worth while to incur the expense or trou- 

 ble of the second course of the medicine. 



Some benefit will be effected by attention to feed- 

 ing. The oats and the hay should be good ; a full 

 allowance of the former, and a somewhat diminished 

 one of the latter, should be given ; all food being 

 warm and scalded ; especially carrots should be allowed 

 if this is at all practicable. Cough is occasionally 

 produced by gastric derangement; and, therefore, 

 while the food is improved, the bowels should be 

 regulated by mashes or by green meat, and the 

 stomach strengthened by a daily allowance of good 

 stout. In colts, however, while the teeth, and more 

 especially the tushes, are being cut, cough is fre- 

 quently present; and then the treatment will consist 

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