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patient improves with its use, continue it until recovery is either 

 fully established or the remedy ceases to have any effect. 



Belladonna is the best remedy for the Cough. Give it every 

 night in half-draehm doses of the extract of the drug. Com- 

 bine it with powdered gentian, and give it as a ball. 



Tincture of the Muriate of Iron. — Should the Arsenicum 

 faU to afford benefit, have recourse to the Ferri Murias. Give 

 it night and morning in 2-drachm doses, mixed each time with 

 6 ounces of water. 



Capsicum 1. — Capsicum is an excellent stimulant to adminis- 

 ter in cases of this nature. It may be used either alone or in 

 alternation with the Ferri Murias. Give it in 4-drachm doaes 

 of the 1st dilution, mixed with 6 or 8 ounces of water. 



SulpTmr. — Sulphur is a remedy to administer when recovery 

 is all but fully established. Use it in drachm doses of the 1st 

 trituration, one or two doses a day for several days in succes- 

 sion. Give it in flour, as directed at page 146. 



Mxercise. — The patient will require exercise: this should 

 be managed according to the peculiarity of the season. If the 

 weather be fine and warm, a few hours daily of a run at grass 

 will doubtless prove of signal benefit to the animal. In nume- 

 rous cases, however, in spite of medicine of every kind, the pulse 

 will remaia quicker than natural, and irritable; the appetite 

 feeble, and the patient listless. This is a state which frequently 

 occurs, especially amongst horses naturally delicate in constitu- 

 tion. To persevere in giving the aaimal medicine, under these 

 circumstances, is to inflict injury ; what the patient requires is 

 food, not physic. The food, however, should be of a suitable 

 character ; the ordinary kinds are altogether unfit for the pur- 

 pose : the stomach is too feeble to digest them. Eaw Eggs, 

 beat together, and mixed with water, is one of the best forms 

 of diet to meet the requirements of the case with which we 



