CASE OF CHRONIC COUGH. 
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by Mr. Youatt, or some other qualified professor, on the diseases 
of cattle, and not, as has usually been the case, make the horse 
their exclusive object of study; for if they do, and go into the 
country to practise (and we cannot all live in cities), they will 
surely experience those evils which I have before described. 
Flattering myself that those few lines, if well reflected on, may 
be of ultimate advantage to those young veterinarians for whom 
they have been written, I beg to subscribe myself, gentlemen, 
(with hearty good wishes for the success of “The Veterinarian,”) 
Your obedient servant, 
John Roberts. 
South Molton, Devon, 
Feb. 15, 1829. 
A CASE OF CHRONIC COUGH, IN WHICH IT WAS 
SUPPOSED DEATH, THE EFFECT OF [SUFFO- 
C ATI ON, WAS OCCASIONED BY BLEEDING. 
By Mr. C. Percivall, V.S. Enniskillen Dragoons. 
A LARGE powerful bay gelding, eight years old, who had for a 
considerable time been troubed with chronic cough and difficulty 
of breathing, was shown to me, on the 19th of May, 1828, by 
the troop sergeant major, on suspicion of being broken-winded 
who had observed that he was not only distressed when in the 
field, but fetched his breath with great difficulty even in the stable. 
I ordered him to be bled, and to have some alterative medicine. 
This, apparently, relieved him much; and he resumed his ordi¬ 
nary duty. . 
On the 6th of August, he on a sudden experienced great diffi¬ 
culty in swallowing, being almost choaked in the act of eating a 
feedL of oats. On enquiry, I now found that the cough had 
become more troublesome; muco-purulent matter issued from 
both nostrils; pulse, 50, rather hard; respiration somewhat 
more difficult; and he did not take his food with that appetite 
which he had done heretofore. 
I ordered him to lose Ibviij of blood, &c. &c.: he, however, 
became faint after losing ILvij, and was consequently pinned up. 
About ten minutes after, he broke out into a profuse sweat, fell 
down, and died in the course of a few minutes, without a struggle. 
post mortem appearances. 
The lungs exhibited slight marks of inflammation. On cutting 
open the larynx and trachea (the membranous lining of which, 
