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and (which is often the case) still finds him service- 

 able, he tells him, almost as plainly as if he could 

 speak to him, what treatment to pursue. He must 

 not be fed on bulky or dry food, and never driven 

 until reasonable time has elapsed after feeding and 

 watering. 



I have reason to believe there is a great similarity 

 in the suffering of a badly broken-winded horse and 

 the human asthmatic. A very intimate friend of 

 mine was violently affected with asthma for fifteen 

 years of his life. Although the horse never recovers 

 his natural health when once he becomes broken- 

 winded, my friend got rid of his asthma about twelve 

 years back, and has enjoyed excellent health since. 

 He attributes his recovery to going to India with his 

 regiment ; but he has frequently told me no earthly 

 consideration would tempt him to accept of existence 

 accompanied by that disease. 



Now when we consider, first, how great are the 

 restorative powers of the horse, and what able hands 

 the veterinary art is in, we may marvel at no cure 

 being found for this too-frequent grievance. But 

 so it is ; and so will the disease be perpetuated as 

 long as horses are made use of and domesticated by 

 man. A " double " expiratory effort and a cough are 

 significant of this complaint. 



BANGS AND BLOWS 



Sporstmen are necessarily exposed to these evils 

 in their stables. If the injury be on the sinew, and 

 severe, the safest way is to give up the horse for the 



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