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no less dangerous in effect, and both are alike 

 liable to terminate in roaring. 



The symptoms which denote chronic cough are 

 nevertheless so slight, that it is too often considered 

 as but a small remains of the more alarming catarrh, 

 which its owner vainly imagines will go o&in time, 

 as the other disagreeable symptoms have done. In 

 this hope he is invariably disappointed, if the means 

 of reducing it be deferred. After the more violent 

 symptoms of catarrh have subsided, and the cure 

 may reasonably be considered as complete, the 

 horse returns to his usual desire for food, and, as 

 in the former case, soon eats voraciously ; he is, 

 moreover, denied water oftener than twice a day, 

 perhaps not so much, so that, when at length he 

 does get a drink, he gulphs it up as if famished. 

 This is commonly the cause, and the first indication 

 of the cough which follows immediately after, but 

 is often mistakenly attributed to his improving too 

 fast after his long illness ; and it is considered only 

 fair that " he should be allowed to recover himself 

 completely." Precaution is thus lulled in fancied 

 security, and unless relief be afforded before the 

 damp season of autumn returns, this symptom in- 

 creases to obstinate confirmation ; until time ren- 

 ders cui'e^ hopeless, alleviation or abatement of the 

 coughing being all that lies within the power of 

 medicine or stable management ' to effect for it — 

 the aid of the former being then of little avail. 

 Very few small proprietors of horses use timely 

 precautions in this respect, and the disorder goe^; 



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