ON CHRONIC COUGH. 
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We must endeavour to get at the history of thecase-r-we must 
find out the seat of the previous disease—we must particularly 
observe whether the wind is perfectly sound—whether the cough 
is aggravated by sudden exertion—whether pain is felt when we 
press on any part of the trachea or larynx. 
If we can fix upon the part, there maybe some hope. An ex¬ 
ternal stimulus, applied in good earnest, may act as a counter- 
irritant. If the seat of the complaint is obscure, we have little 
to guide our treatment, and the result will probably be unsatis¬ 
factory. We may, however, attend to the diet. We may feed 
well, but not too well. These chronic local irritations will some¬ 
times cease when we can produce a healthy state of the constitu- . 
tion generally; but debility may in different ways, yet with 
almost equal power, increase the complaint. Carrots, a mild and 
nutritious food and particularly salutary in affections of the re¬ 
spiratory organs, may be tried ; or a six weeks’ run at grass in the 
spring, a better, far better, alterative than our whole pharmaco¬ 
poeia affords. 
If these fail, medicine will be generally thrown away. I have, 
however, seen good effect from half doses of the common fever 
ball made up with green Barbadoes naphtha. I am far from re¬ 
garding this mineral production as the panacea which some have 
represented it to be, but I have seen it, and not unfrequently, 
useful here. 
Chronic Cojigh in Cattle .—Chronic hoose in cattle is a serious 
complaint. The beast that labours under it rarely fattens kindly, 
and it is too frequently the foundation of pulmonary consumption. 
This disease is principally, or almost always, referable to the 
lungs, and mostly to the bronchial passages in these animals, and 
should be treated with half doses of the medicine that was recom¬ 
mended for catarrh, and combined with the naphtha. The case 
should not be abandoned while the affection is confined to the 
lungs ; but when other organs begin to be involved, and particu¬ 
larly when dysentery accompanies chronic hoose, all hope is fled. 
