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from all work, and placed in a loose-box ; let him be 

 fed on bran and linseed mashes, and given green food, 

 carrots, and anything that will tempt his appetite. 



Avoid purging, bleeding, or anything that will lower 

 the system — a rule to be most particularly observed in 

 all diseases of the respiratory organs, unless severe in- 

 flammation be present, when a professional man only 

 can judge to what extent the lowering process may be 

 necessary. 



Broken Wind is caused by a large number of the air- 

 cells of the lungs becoming fused, as it were, into one 

 large air-cell, thus diminishing the aerating surface, 

 and rendering the lungs weaker. It is indicated by a 

 sudden inspiration and a long, almost double, expira- 

 tion ; the flanks and abdomen are observed to suddenly 

 fall down, instead of being gradually expanded. 



Broken wind is, in fact, emphysema of the lung, and 

 there is said to be no absolute cure for it ; but it may 

 be alleviated by restricting the animal in hay and water, 

 and giving the latter only in small quantities, not more 

 than half-a-pint at a time, and moistening all food. 



Take care he does not eat his bed, which he will 

 make every efl"ort to do. He should have no straw 

 about him in the day, and be muzzled at night. 



Lampas does not belong properly to these diseases, in- 

 dicating some derangement in the alimentary canal, but 

 is here mentioned to guard against a brutal practice com- 

 monly resorted to by farriers as a cure for- the disorder. 



The groom complains that his charge is "ofi" his 

 feed," and fancies that the palate is swollen more than 

 usual — the fact being that he never examined it at any 

 other time ; and the farrier proceeds to cure the rejec- 

 tion of food by searing the poor beast's mouth with a 



