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COUGH

Volume 6 · 54 words · 1810 Edition

in Medicine. See MEDICINE Index.

Farriery. See FARRIERY Index.

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