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defedt may fometimes occur, as a cheil: too nar^ 

 row for lungs of an uncommon exterifion, that 

 conftitute naturally what are called thick- 

 winded horfes, cannot be denied ; and in thofc 

 cafes very little is to be expeded from a hope 

 of mitigation or cure. 



It cannot but be obferved what an anxious 

 defire 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 inflindt alone 

 prompts the animal to expe(fl: drinking may 

 wafi^iaway: 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 diaphragm) muft 

 increafe the difquietude, which is natural to 

 believe from the fagaclty of animals in other 

 inftances, they would in this mod carefully 

 avoid. 



If my HYPOTHESIS is founded in fad, 

 (which circumftances will not allow me the 

 leaft reafon to doubt) a cure may certainly be 

 expefted, provided the attempt is made upon 



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