402 ADDITIONAL . 



quantity masticated to gratify the appetite 

 affording so little nutriment in proportion to 

 the accumulation, that the stomach is per- 

 petually overloaded with gross and < heavy 

 impurities, whi^ch, by its evident pressure 

 upon the diaphragm, not only affects the elas- 

 ticity of the lungs, (see p. £21.) but engen- 

 ders a large portion of viscid glutinous mat^ 

 ter, w^ith which the finer vessels of the lungs;r 

 in broken-wiiided horses, are fomid to abound, 

 upon inspection, after death. 



To such stransfe and inconsistent manner 

 of feeding may be added an absurdity of 

 equal magnitude, in constant practice with 

 the rustic world in general, but farmers' ser- 

 vants in particular, of permitting their horses 

 to drink an immoderate and unrestrained 

 quantity of water after full feeding, and the 

 usual rotational abstinence of twelve hours ; 

 by which mode of practice the tendency to 

 this defect is very much increased. 



In respect to the similar failure in horses 

 of a superior class, I will, without the least 

 cause for hesitation, venture to pronounce 

 more have been injured in this respect by 



