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lowing drops should be administered three times in 

 the course of every day. 



RECIPE (No. 8). 



Cough Drops. 



Take — Extract of belladonna, one drachm and a half ; 

 Tincture of squills, four drachms ; 

 Tincture of ipecacuanha, two drachms and a half ; 

 Water, three-quarters of a pint. 



Rub down the belladonna in the water, and when it is perfectly 

 dissolved, mix. 



Give half a teaspoonful to one or two teaspoonfuls for a dose. 



At the same time attend to the food. Put out the 

 allowance for the day first thing in the morning, but 

 give this at four different periods, so that a loaded 

 stomach may at no time distress the breathing. 



CHAPTER X. 



DISTEMPEIt. 



This is rather a distressing than a fatal disease; and 

 it is one which most animals seem doomed to undergo 

 at least once during their existence. An attack of it 

 is indicated by a gradual loss of appetite, spirits, and 

 flesh, without any peculiar local affection ; by mucus 

 collecting at the corner of the eye ; and by a husky 

 cough, which is rather an apparent attempt to re- 

 move something from the throat, than the sound indi- 

 cative of true laryngeal disease. Soon after this, the 

 usual watery discharge from the nose will cease ; — it 



