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to furnish a cure ; the expense to obtain it 

 being therefore superfluous, it had better be 

 avoided. That such a defect may sometimes 

 occur, as a chest too iiarrow for lungs of an 

 uncommon extension, that constitute na-- 

 turally what are called thick-winded horses, 

 cannot be denied ; and in those cases very 

 httle is to be expected from a hope of miti- 



gation or cure. 



It cannot but be observed what an anxious 

 desire a broken-winded horse always dis- 

 plays to obtain xoater — a self-evident con- 

 viction he is rendered uneasy by some glu- 

 tinous adhesive internal substance, that 

 instinct alone prompts the animal to expect 

 drinking may wash away: on the ^contrary, 

 if, as Bartlet and Gibson suppose, ""^ the 

 ^^ lungs are too large for the chest," every 

 thing that increases the bulk ^of the abdomeny 

 or viscera (and consequently the pressure 

 upon the diaphragm) must increase the dis- 

 quietude, which is natural to believe, from 

 the sagacity of animals in other instances, 

 they would in this most carefully avoid. . 



If my HYPOTHESIS is founded in fact. 



