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COUGH

Volume 5 · 58 words · 1797 Edition

in medicine. See (Index subjoined to) MEDICINE.

farriery. See FARRIERY, § vi.

Cough, called the hulks, is a disease to which young bullocks are subject. In this disorder the wind-pipe and its branches are loaded with small taper worms. Farriers count the disease incurable; but fumigations with mercurials, as cinnabar, or with fetids, as tobacco, might prove serviceable.