»^i REGIMEN FOR BROKEN WIND. 



Regimen. Of course, any person would avoid exposino^ the animal tofresb 

 cold, and not push him too hard on a full stomach ; nor indeed, give away a 

 chance of increasing the malady by the same means as I have just said origi- 

 nally brought it on. lie will, on the contrary, follow an opposite course of 

 treatment, and as much as [jossihie regulate his feeding and exercise upon 

 moderate princi{)les, for the stomach and bowels are always affected by broken 

 v.'ind. Hence it is, that flatulency accompanies broken wind of every kind, so 

 that the animal in his endeavours to cough, usually breaks wind after an effoit 

 or two. Much medicine is not requisite, and, in slight cases, far from desira- 

 ble; tonics, bracing air, and regular hard meat feeding, broken or sodden, and 

 fiven in small quantities, will do more for the horse than physic of any sort, 

 'or the first, Peruvian bark, or cascarilla in small doses, may be given occa- 

 sionally adapting the quantity to the bulk of the animal. 



Tonic Ball. 



Cascarilla, \ i ,o 2 drachms of each, 



(jentian root, 5 



Oil of Carraways, ten drops; with 

 Mucilage enough to form the ball. If irritation of the bowels is indicated by 

 a certain protrusion of the anus, add of opium 10 to 12 grains. 



When the cough is particularly troublesome, or the animal seems to laWai 

 much in respiration, give the following 



Ball. 



Dried squills, powdered, 1 drachm. 

 Gum ammoniacum, 3 drachms. 

 Opium, 10 drachms; 

 With mucilage sufficient to form the ball. 



If there is reason to apprehend the horse swallows his corn without grind- 

 ing it, as commonly happens, bruised or sodden oats should be given, and the 

 bowels discharged by purgatives, when alteratives may not be deemed equal to 

 the urgency of the case. Those prescribed at pages 86, 87, are applicable in 

 this case also ; inasmuch as the two disorders bear very near resemblance to 

 each other in this respect. Give green food, succulent roots, and bran-mashes, 

 as there recommended. Let the water be soft, not too cold, and given in 

 small quantities at a time, and frequently. 



As broken wind produces disordered bowels, and is re-prod need by it, the 

 connexion or sympathy between the two, thus plainly demonstrated, should 

 be employed in the alleviation of the former in all its stages, when it has been 

 of long standing. The means of attaining this object has been shown; and 

 when the animal under treatment is equal to the care and expense, he fre- 

 quently recovers so much of his former powers of free respiration, that his cure 

 will seem for a short time fully effected. These appearances, however, aro 

 completely illusive ; upon the least extra work he relapses into his former dif 

 iiculties of continuing it, and the cough, the roaring, wheezing, or labouring 

 of the flanks and chest, return as bad as ever. If the work be very hard, as 

 always happens when the horse has been sold deceptiously, and the new mas. 

 ter would try his utmost powers, the relapse is then worse than before; he 

 hereupon becomes a confirmed roarer, by the wind and lymph being driven 

 inside the membrane that lines the wind-j>i|)e, and causes inflammation of the 

 very Inie blood-vessels that traverse it. Hence the number of lawsuits that 

 ure instituted to ret;over the valuable consideration paid for broken vindew 



