226 Broken wind. 



trial, an incurable malady at all events. The 

 better to reconcile us to which, fuch pal- 

 liatives may be occafionally put into ufe 

 as will naturally be fuggefted by an attentive 

 perufal of this clafs, in which the difeafes of 

 the lungs are the principal objects of invefti- 

 gation. 



At ail events, when a cough is become of 

 long ftanding, or the horfe perceived to labour 

 under any of thofe wheezings in exercife, or 

 violent heaving in the flanks, that indicate an 

 oppreiTed ftate of the lungs or difficulty of re- 

 fpiration, the mode of feeding fhould be re- 

 gulated accordingly ; upon a proper attention 

 to v/hich circiimftance, many of the confe- 

 quences evidently depend. For, whether as a 

 preventive or cure, mafhes ihould be occa- 

 lionally given, and gradually declined, till the 

 food becomes regularly dry : hay fhould be 

 diftributed in fmall quantities, that the con- 

 tents of the ilomach may not be too much 

 increafed for gradual digeftion. To horfes of 

 this defcription food iliould be given that will 

 afford the greateft nutriment with the fmalleft 

 quantity : on the contrar)^, fo foon as the pro- 

 bability of fuch defedl is perceived, the horfe 



