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iiGss, inattention, and improper management, 

 proceed bad eyes, brohen-xvind, grease, choUc^ 

 and many other incidental disquietudes: but 

 what renders it a matter of still greater re- 

 gret is, their falling under the unavoidable 

 medical supvirintendance of those very vil- 

 lage farriers whose brilliancv of imao;ina- 

 lion, and fertility of invention, are so par- 

 ticularly displayed in different parts of the 

 work. 



Diseases so evidently resulting from ne- 

 glect and bad management, may be as cer- 

 tainly prevented by proper care and atten- 

 tion ; taking them, therefore, in rotation, we 

 may venture to affirm, that by far the 

 greater part of those defects in the ej^es, fre- 

 quently terminating in a loss of sight, are 

 more the effect of external injuries than 

 internal deficiencies. The multiplicity of 

 horses, particularly of thec^r^ kind, whose re- 

 spiration is attended with so much difficulty 

 upon all occasions, (but singularly so upon 

 increased exertion), as to be termed '' broken- 

 ^' winded," may be most readily and clearly 

 accounted for in the following; manner. Ex- 

 elusive of what has been already said upon this 



