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selves have exhibited traces of having been in a high state 

 of inflammation, which must have occasioned great pain 

 to the animal when breathing, and consequently have 

 induced it to limit as far as possible the extent of the 

 inhalations. 



Certain conformations of the chest predispose horses to 

 this complaint. Those with a round chest are liable to 

 be affected in the wind, and especially if they are fat. 

 Large draught-horses are nearly all thick in the wind, as 

 well as all which are hard worked while their stomach is 

 full. All inflammatory affections of the lungs produce 

 thick wind while the malady exists, and frequently leave 

 it even wdien removed. Glanders are too often the remote 

 cause of tliick wind ; as the seat of this disease is so 

 contiguous to the lungs and their air-passages, they soon 

 become affected, and the air-cells are almost certain to be 

 injured. 



Horses with a circular chest are less liable to this com- 

 plaint than those of a more contracted form. Those which 

 have been kept much in a stable, and without being regu- 

 larly exercised, will manifest symptoms of thick wind when 

 trotted or galloped. But if they are cautiously trained to 

 this action to which they have not been accustomed, then 

 this will wear off, and they may be ridden without being 

 in the least affected in the wind. 



Remedies. — This disease does not come within the scope 

 of medical treatment : all that can be done is to guard 

 against overloading the stomach with heating food, and not 

 to exercise the animal to any extent while his stomach is 

 full. Abstain from subjecting him to hard labour, or 

 trotting and galloping him violently. By these precautions 

 the affection will gradually subside, and in time he may 

 become perfectly sound. 



