PLEURISY, &c. 215 



t!on is then produced j Vs^hich, according to the 

 nature of the cafe and certainty of circum- 

 ftances, muft terminate in fuffocation, if fuf- 

 fered long to continue its progrefs, without 

 effedlual attempts to reheve Nature from the 

 burthen fhe has accumulated. This difeafe may 

 alfo be produced by violent exercife upon the 

 turfy or exertion in th^Jieldy when the increafed 

 rapidity of circulation (by the adlion of the 

 folids upon their contents), propels the blood 

 to the fmaller paiTages with fo great a degree 

 of velocity as not only to produce immediate 

 inflammation, but fometimes to rupture fome 

 of the finer veffels, from which broken wind 

 or CONSUMPTION frequently proceeds, 



A fufficient quantity of blood rnufl: be 

 injlantly taken away, to unload the vefTels as 

 much as the ftrength will bear. After this 

 operation, have ready fome bran and very 

 fweet hay cut fmall, and fcalded together, 

 which place hot in the manger, that the fumes 

 may be imbibed as an internal fomentation, 

 to relax the rigidity of the glands, and excite 

 a difcharge from the noftrils fo foon as pof- 

 fible. The very nature of this cafe, and 

 the danger to which the horfe is expofed, fuf- 

 P 4 ficiently 



