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augmenting to the last; but there was a strange diminution 

 in the swollen gland, and which became afterwards still 

 more striking. On the sixth day, still losing flesh. Eighth 

 day, the gland ceased to diminish ; the horse dejected, and 

 looking thinner ; was very weak, had left ofi* eating, and no 

 longer lay down; nasal flux abundant, and sticking about 

 the nostrils. Tenth day, six inspirations and thirty-six 

 pulsations a minute. The horse staggered in walking, and 

 refused to eat. Seeing that he could not in this state long 

 survive, water was brought. He drank, and immediately 

 recovered his appetite. He regained his embonpoint with 

 the same rapidity with which he had lost it. For some days 

 afterwards the nasal flux had much diminished, together with 

 the inflammatory action, and the movements of the flanks 

 had lost their soubresaut. But in four days more, all the 

 symptoms of broken-wind had returned. The horse was 

 destroyed, and his lungs shov/ed general emphysema. 



By PROPER FEEDING, and by condition^ it is that we render 

 our broken-winded servant, while free from exacerbation, of 

 the greatest service to us. By a judicious plan of regimen, 

 in respect to exercise or work, and feeding and grooming, 

 the animal must be got into the best possible condition. 

 All his grossness, all redundant fat about his body and 

 bowels, must be got rid of, so that nothing remains but 

 sheer hard muscle; and when this — which is real condi- 

 tion — shall be attained, the horse — be he broken-winded, 

 or roarer, or otherwise defective in his "pipes^^ — will do 

 his work with so much comparative facility and comfort 

 as no longer to appear like the same animal. The air 

 of his stable should be temperate and pure. His food should 

 be of that kind which will not greatly distend his bowels 

 or be hard of digestion, or prove astringent in efi'ect ; at 

 the same time it must be nutritive, and such as he can work 

 upon. Take great care that he do not over-fill his stomach, 

 and that he get no water to distend his bowels ; none, at least, 

 on the eve of his being required for work ; but only sufficient 

 water and food to maintain his powers, and these given some 

 two or three hours before his work is likelv to commence. The 



