CHAP. I.] REMEDIES WHEN VARIED, BENEFICIAL. 229 



toms are removed ; but if not, the cough must be 

 considered as a simple disease, and be treated ac- 

 cordingly. By the way, seeing that after all our 

 care and anxious examination, we can but imper- 

 fectly distinguish between some cases of ill-cured 

 catarrh, or the chronic cough, and the incipient 

 cough, or afresh cold, the practitioner would do well 

 in cases of doubt, when he finds one of those reme- 

 dies fail to afford the expected relief, to try another, 

 and another — for example : — 



When the cough continues, and there is reason 

 to apprehend, from the frequent and violent efforts 

 of the animal to expel the mucous secretion, that 

 this is thick or viscid, and does not come away, 

 though the animal evidently sneezes for that pur- 

 pose, — the lungs must be relieved by softening 

 the agglutination, otherwise termed " cutting the 

 phlegm." Venesection always effects this end ; but, 

 when blood-letting is not rendered necessary by 

 the existence of inflammatory symptoms, as gene- 

 rally happens, the drenches Nos. 1 and 2 will 

 afford relief. As the cough always becomes more 

 and more troublesome as the discharge lessens of 

 itself, or ceases altogether, we may conclude some 

 lurking virus that has fixed upon the lungs is the 

 immediate cause of the cough. In order to enable 

 the lungs to run q^ this cause by a more copious 

 discharge, give expectorants in the first instance. 



Expectorant Ball. — No. 1. 

 Sulphur, J an ounce. 



