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several other medicines could be enumerated ; but as it might 

 only tend to confuse the reader with regard to the proper choice 

 of a drug for any particular case, I forbear to name others. I 

 have found Belladonna to be the best remedy for the general 

 run of coughs, but the quantity necessary to use for a dose varies 

 in a singular manner. Numbers of horses require the extract 

 of the drug in half-drachm doses, and the dose repeating daily 

 for several days in succession, before its effects upon the coUgh 

 are satisfactory ; while to others, 2-drachm doses o^ the 3rd 

 dilution will remove the violence of the cough, when the extract 

 may have failed to produce the least apparent good. 



Bryonia 1. — Bryonia is frequently valuable, if given to 

 coughs of recent origia. Use it of the 1st, and sometimes of 

 the 3rd dilutions ; give the remedy ia 2-drachm doses at least 

 once a day. 



Setons. — Sometimes the passing of a Seton, ten or twelve 

 inches in length, between the outer surface of the vraidpipe 

 and the inner surface of the skin, in the direction of the long 

 axis of the former, and allowing it to remain for two or three 

 weeks, will prove of signal service. 



Diluent Drmks, composed of linseed tea, honey and Spanish 

 juice dissolved and mixed together, vrill frequently benefit the 

 patient in. these cases. 



HAY ASTHMA. 

 I have given to the present disease the name of "Hay 

 Asthma" — not because it holds any very intimate relation to 

 the malady known as Hay Asthma, which effects the human 

 being, but because in the horse it originates in the animal par- 

 taking of a peculiar kind of dried grass amongst the fodder 

 which may partly constitute its diet. 



