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ficulty thence of expanfion to the lungs, as a 

 caufe of thick-windednefs in horfes, and am 

 very far from thinking contemptuoufly of it. 

 EcHpfe, I have heard, was a thick-winded, hard 

 breathing horfe, and always made great noife 

 in his exercife ; on diffeftion, his heart and 

 lungs appeared of a remarkable large fize, and 

 the cafe was precifely the fame with a purfive 

 hackney which I knew many years : but in all 

 the different ftages of this diforder the general 

 treatment muft be fimilar, differing only in 

 degree. Beit remembered, that purfive horfes 

 demand a pun6lilious regularity in phyfic and 

 exercife. 



The difeafe may probably have arifen from 

 want of timely evacuation, fo that occafional 

 phyfic and bleeding fliould not be negle6led. 

 Mercurial phyfic is indicated, being powerfully 

 deobftruent, perhaps the faline courfe, from 

 its diuretic effeds, may be peculiarly ufeful 

 in this cafe. A late writer on the afthma, 

 feems to place the whole dependance for a 

 cure in the almoft total abftinence from liquids. 

 It would be madnefs to glut a broken-winded 

 horfe with water, but I never faw fuch take 

 the fmalleft harm from a moderate proportion 

 of it, frequently given; and perhaps the only 

 reafon \\4iy they are particularly greedy of 

 drink is, becaufe it is a received notion, that 

 ihey ought to be kept without it. Give as 



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