232 CONSUMPTION — WHAT ? [BOOK II. 



Drench. — No. 2. 



Bruised garlic, 4 ounces. 



Vinegar, 12 ounces. 

 Pour on the vinegar boiling hot ; let it simmer four 

 or five hours, strain off and add six ounces of honey. 

 Divide into three parts or four, and give it in the 

 course of the day at intervals. 



But no ultimate cure can be effected unless the 

 diet and regimen is properly followed up ; nor, if 

 the animal be pushed in his work whilst the dis- 

 order is virulent; and, after all our care, if the 

 cough does not abate, but becomes worse by reason 

 of a new cold, it fixes upon the lungs, and the 

 animal drags out a miserable existence. This has 

 been usually treated of as consumption, by reason 

 of its resemblance to the same disorder in human 

 medicine, from the wasting away, or consumption 

 of the animal system, which accompanies a diseased 

 state o£t\\e2iulmo?iar?/ arteries. Of the importance 

 of this part of the system to animal life, to exist- 

 ence and health, the attentive reader cannot fail to 

 be sufficiently aware who has well perused that 

 part of the second chapter of this little manual, in 

 which the functions of the organs of respiration are 

 described with requisite care — pages 98 to 112. 

 The hopelessness of bringing about a cure, after 

 the ruin has proceeded so far as we have just con- 

 templated, must likewise be most apparent to him ; 

 we will not, therefore, pursue farther in detail the 

 last wastings of this vitally essential organ of the 



