402 ADDITIONAL 



ment in proportion to the accumulation, that 

 the ftomach is perpetually overloaded with 

 grofs and heavy impurities, which, by its evi- 

 dent preffure upon the diaphragm, not only 

 afFedts the elafticity of the lungs (fee p. 221), 

 but engenders a large portion of vifcid gluti- 

 nous matter, with which the finer veffels of 

 the lungs, in broken winded horfes, are found 

 to abound, upon infpedion after death. 



To fuch ftrange and inconfiftent manner of 

 feeding may he added an abfurdity of equal 

 magnitude, in conftant pradice with the ruflic 

 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 ab- 

 fcinence of twelve hours 3 by which mode of 

 pradlice the tendency to this defedt is very 

 much increafed. 



In refpedl to the fi mil ar failure in horfes of 

 a fuperior clafs, I will, without the leafl caufe 

 for hefitation, venture to pronounce more have 

 been injured in this refped by the careleflhefs 

 of bovs, or inadvertency o^ fervants (in that in- 

 'fernal fyftem of hard galloping immedi- 

 ately 



