148 EXAMINATION OF HORSES 



LECTURE XVIII. 



The "Wind" or Respiration — The Respiration and Circulation 

 Interdependent — Mechanism of Respiration — " High Blowers " 

 — "Whistlers" — Snoring — Nasal Polypi — Distended Guttural 

 Pouches — Roaring, Grunting, Trumpeting — Warts on Vocal 

 Cords — Tumours in the Ventricles of the Larynx — Chronic 

 Laryiigitis — Ulceration of the Larynx — Chronic Cough — Thick 

 Wind — Broken Wind — " A Wheezer " — Conclusion — Backing 

 the Horse — Turn him round Quickly on the Ground he 

 Stands upon — Lastly, Remove his Fore Shoes. 



Gentlemen, — Having come to the fourth most import- 

 ant point in horse examination — namely, that which 

 usually is known as the " wind/' we will proceed much 

 in the same way as with the fore foot and the hock, and 

 endeavour to arrive at practical results by a logical 

 method and compare them with the results arrived at 

 empirically. 



The " wind,", or as we term it, the respiration, is a 

 function going on by night and by day — now, then, and 

 always, from the animal's birth to his death. 



It is that process by which air is admitted within the 

 horse's lungs, there to yield up some of its oxygen to the 

 oxygen carriers (the red blood corpuscles), and in return 

 for this purity, to be loaded with impurities which it 



