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LEGS. 



If his knees are not broken, nor stand bending and 

 trembling forward, (which is called knuckling) his legs 

 may be good ; but if he steps short and digs his toes in 

 the ground, it is a sign he will knuckle. In short, if the 

 hoof be pretty flat and not curled, you need not fear a 

 founder. 



WIND. 



If his flanks beat even and slow, his wind may be 

 good ; but if they heave double and irregular, or if 

 (while he stands in the stable) he blows at the nostrils, 

 as if he had just been galloping, they are signs of a 

 broken wind. Deceitful dealers have a draught which 

 they sometimes give, to make a horse breathe regularly 

 in the stable : the surest way to judge of his wind, is to 

 give him a good brushing gallop, and it is ten to one, if 

 his wind be broken or even touched, that he will cough 

 and wheeze very much, and no medicine can prevent his 

 doing so. 



REGIMEN FOR A BROKEN WIND. 



This is a disease in every respect similar to the asthma 

 in the human species. The symptoms are a hollow 

 cough, which is increased by exercise, and attended with 

 a wheezing, or difficulty of breathing, and a working of 

 the flanks. This disorder is commonly brought on by 

 voracious feeding, which distends the stomach inordi- 

 nately ; by violent exercise when the belly is full; by 

 being driven into water when he is sweated and hot ; 



or from a cold, not well cured. Horses that eat their 

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