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tion is then produced; which, according to the 

 nature of the cafe and certainty of circum- 

 ftances, muft terminate in fufrocation, if fuf- 

 fered long to continue its progrefs without ef- 

 fectual attempts to relieve A^^tov from the bur- 

 then (he has accumulated. Tliis difeafe may 

 alfo be produced by violent exercife upon the 

 turf, or exertion in thcJieU, when the increafed 

 rapidity of circulation (by the action of the 

 folids upon their contents), propels the blood 

 to the fmaller paffages with fo great a degree 

 of velocity as not only to produce immediate 

 inflammation bat fometimes to rupture fome 

 of the finer veffels, from which broken wind 

 or CONSUMPTION frequently procecds. 



A fufficient quantity of blood muft be in" 

 Jlanfly taken away, to unload the veffels 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 ex- 

 cite a difcharge from the noftrils fo foon as 

 poffible. The very nature of this cafe, and 

 the danger to which the horfe is expofed, fuf- 

 P 4 ficiently 



