4oi ADDITIONAL 



ment in proportion to the accumulation, that 

 die ftomach is perpetually overloaded with 

 grofs and heavy impurities,^ which, by its evi- 

 dent preffure upon the diap/jragm, . not only 

 aiFefts the elafticity of the lungs (fee p. 221.) 

 but engenders a large portion of vifcid gluti- 

 nous matter, with which the finer veflels of 

 the lungs, in broken -winded horfes, are found 

 fo abound, upon infpedlion, after death. 



To fuch ftrange and inconfifEent manner of 

 feeding may be added an abfurdity of equal 

 magnitude, in conftant pra6lice with the ruftic 

 world in general, but farmers' fervants in par- 

 ticular, of permitting their horfes to drink an 

 immoderate and unreftrained quantity of water 

 after full feeding, and the ufual rotational 

 abftinence of twelve hours ; by which mode of 

 praftice the tendency to tliis defeft is very 

 much increafed. 



In refpeft to the fimilar fiilure in horfes of 

 a fuperior clafs, I will, without the leaft caufe 

 for hefitation, venture to pronounce more have 

 been injured in this refpedt by the careleflhefs 

 of 6oys, or inzdvtrtency of Jervants (in that in- 

 fernal fyflemofHARD GALLOPING immediately 



AFTER 



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