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numerous, and tliey will do very well for those 

 exercises in which they are not hurried. But 

 it is vain to attempt to cure them, for when 

 the lungs are once affected in this way, it will 

 be next to impossible to restore them. The 

 best way to ascertain whether a horse has any 

 complaint in his lungs is, to take a firm hold of 

 his windpipe, and stop his breath for a short 

 time; if his lungs be affected badly he will 

 throw off corrupt mattery if not, what comes 

 from his nostrils will be rather clear and pure. 

 In buying a horse, he should be mounted, and 

 put on his speed for two or three hundred 

 yards, and his manner of breathing observed -, 

 if his wind be thick, touched, or broken, it 

 will scon appear by the irregularity of respira- 

 tioQ, and the heaving of his flanks. 



