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attention to diet, grooming, ventilation and exercise are needed. A 

 broken winded horse should never be left idle for a day. Good hard 

 nutritious food is obviously indispensable. Mineral tonics and especially 

 arsenic may be administered with benefit in many cases with the view of 

 restoring tone to the stomach. 



With judicious management a horse even with confirmed broken wind, 

 though he will never become sound, may remain for years available for 

 slow work. 



469. Class of horses predisposed to Broken Wind. 



Broken Wind, though occasionally found in valuable horses, as a 

 sequel of pulmonary disease, is most common among inferior animals, 

 because they are more often subjected to the causes, such as bad or in- 

 nutritious forage or careless feeding, which so frequently induce it. All 

 horses however are liable to it under the influence of these causes. 

 Hence we often find hunters, which have been summered in a straw yard, 

 affected with this disease. 



470. PULMONARY CONSUMPTION. 



Prolonged disease of any sort, but especially of the liver, or even long- 

 continued debility, sometimes leads to derangements of the lungs, which 

 ultimately induce Pulmonary Consumption. The disease is the same as 

 Phthisis or Consumption in man. A deep loud cough in the first in- 

 stance, with falling off in the condition and an unhealthy state of the 

 coat, are marked signs of the disease. In the later stages the hair 

 becomes easily detached, and tubercles form in the lungs. 



In Pulmonary Consumption we can hardly hope for much benefit from 

 treatment. Careful feeding, moderate exercise, good grooming, tonics 

 and attention to the general health afford the best chance of arresting 

 the development of the disease; but when tubercles have formed in the 

 lungs, the animals had better be destroyed. Their presence may be 

 judged of from the nature of the discharge, which may be coughed up 

 through the nose, together with rapid falling off of the animal in con- 

 dition. 



Pulmonary Consumption, though not often found in horses in this 

 country, is very common among the stud-bred horses in India in con- 

 junction with liver disease. The " half caste " in India suffers from the 

 same complication of diseases. 



CHAPTER 24. 



INFLUENZA. 



471. Nature of Influenza. 472. Causes. 472 a. Necessity for watching 

 the earliest symptoms. 473. Symptoms. 473 a. Pink-Eye. 474. Conva- 



