t26 BROKEN WIND. 



trial, an incurable malady at ail 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 objeds of invefti- 

 gation. 



At all events when a cough is become of 

 long landing, or the horfe perceived to labour 

 under any of thofe wheezings in exercife, or 

 violent heaving in the flanks, that indicate an 

 oppreffed ftate of the lungs or difficulty of re- 

 fpiration, the mode of feeding /hould be re- 

 gulated accordingly ; upon a proper attention 

 to which circumftance, many of the confe- 

 quences evidently depend. For, whether as a 

 preventative or cure, maflics fhould be occa- 

 fionally given, and gradually declined, till the 

 food becomes regularly dry : hay fhould be 

 diilributed m fmall quantities, that the con- 

 tents of the ftomach may not be too much in- 

 creafed for gradual digeftion. To horfes of 

 this defcription food (liould be given that will 

 afford the greateft nutriment with the fmallefl: 

 quantity : on the contrary, fo foon as the pro- 

 bability of fuch defedt is perceived^ the horfe 

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