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Horses that are thick whided are usually 

 called snorers, wheezers, or blowers. Snoring 

 arises from the nostrils being too narrow, and 

 in respiration, from contraction of the passage 

 the air is forced through them very strongly. 

 Wheezing arises from the lungs being affected 

 with anasthmaj cold, cough, or some such in- 

 ternal cause. Blowing is, of the three, the 

 nearest in afEnity to broken wind, and arises 

 from the breath being forced out very suddenly. 

 In all cases v/here the wind is affected the 

 horse takes his breath In tolerably well 5 but 

 from the lungs having been overstrained, and 

 having lost their retentive and elastic power, 

 the air escapes suddenly with a jerk, which is 

 very perceptible at the flanks by their sudden 

 falling. The fatter a horse is, the fuller, of 

 course, will be his inside, and there will be the 

 less room for air ; and fatness always increases 

 the complaint. All animals pant very quick, 

 and breathe with more difEculty when thrown 

 into a heat by running, or any other severe ex- 

 ercise; the cause of which is, that the heat 

 thus excited swells every thing inside the ani- 

 mal, and leaves little space for breath. Broken 

 winded and thick winded horses are not very 



