COUGH, OR CATARRH. 389 



be changed for due more stimulating, or the 

 sore should be washed with a solution of blue 

 vitriol previous to it's application. 



Cough. 



This disease so frequently occurs, and is 

 so often rendered incurable by improper 

 treatment, that it appears necessary to give 

 it a more particular consideration than we 

 have done in the former editions of this work. 

 Catarrh or cold is jreneraliv the oriq;in of those 

 troublesome and often incurable coughs, which 

 have been named chroiiic coughs. Sometimes, 

 however, they depend on invitation in the sto- 

 mach and bowels. When a horse catches cold 

 as It is termed, if the attack be not violent, 

 it is seldom thought necessary to take him 

 from his usual w^ork : he is bled moderately, 

 takes a little nitre, an 1 the complaint receives 



