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defeft m2iy fo?netimes occur, as a chefl: too nar-^ 

 row for lungs of an uncommon extenfion, tliat 

 conftitute naturally what are called thick- 

 winded horfes, cannot be denied ; and in thoie 

 cafes very little is to be expefted from a hope 

 of mitigation or cure. 



It cannot but be obferved v/hat an anxious 

 jlefire a broken-winded horfe always dif- 

 plays to obtain water — a felf-evident convic- 

 tion he is rendered uneafy by fome glutinous 

 adhefive internal fubftance, that inilind alone 

 prompts the animal to expedl drinking may 

 waih away: on the contrary, if, as Bartlet 

 and Gibson fuppofe, " the lungs are too large 

 " for the cheft," every thing that increafes 

 the bulk of the abdomen or vifcera (and confe- 

 quently the preffure upon the diaphragjn) muil 

 increafe the difquietude, which is natural ta 

 believe, from the fagacity of animals in other 

 inftances, they would in this mofi carefully 

 avoid. 



If my HYPOTHESIS is founded in fad, 

 (which ch-cumftances will not allow me the 

 leaft reafon to doubt) a cure may certainly be 

 expeded, provided the attempt is made upon 



the 



