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another disease, the whistling will vanish with the 

 disease : thus, for instance, it frequently accompanies 

 a cold, but, on the cold being cured, vanishes and 

 is not heard again. Where it assumes a chronic form, 

 as it frequently does when produced by water on the 

 chest, by inflammation of the lungs, or by injury to the 

 windpipe, it is incurable. 



As the cold is, per se, an unsoundness, whistling is, 

 of course, in this, its least aggravated form, an 



UNSOUNDNES& 



When a good and serviceable horse has become 

 affected with whistling only in his gallop, and not 

 in his trot, he does not suffer inconvenience from this 

 pace, and he may advantageously, if suited to that 

 kind of work, be put into harness ; and although there 

 may exist some little wheezing, a fair pace does not 

 distress the animal : he may be usefully employed in 

 harness-work, while his whistling will be drowned by 

 the noise of the wheels : he is, however, UNSOUND. 



Wheezing. 

 See the article on " Whistling/ j 



Cough. 



lowever simple and however recent in origin a 

 2;b may be, while it lasts the horse is UNSOUND.. 

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