368 ON PURSIVENESS, ASTHMA, &C. 



Or, a courfe of tar-water, about four times 

 the ftrength of the common ; a quart or two 

 given in the horfe's drink. Lime-water is faid 

 to have been found a palhative of late by cer- 

 tain horfe-dealers. 



The vitriol of copper, joined with emetic 

 tartar, has formerly fucceeded in a few inftances 

 of inveterate afthma, when every other known 

 remedy had failed. 



The cafe of pulmonary abfcefs in horfes mufl 

 furely be hopelefs, as well from the common 

 reafon of the difficulty of effefting union of 

 divided parts, where inceflant motion takes 

 place, as the confideration, that the conftant 

 labour expefted from the horfe flill enhances 

 the difficulty. If any remedy, it mufl; be pure 

 air in upland paflure ; the patient to have no 

 difturbance for at leafl: twelve months. There 

 are fome few inftances of a mare breeding, al- 

 though evidently afthmatic, and with a difcharge 

 from the noftrils. La Foffe relates that a horfe, 

 in the worft (iage of the glanders, covered a 

 mare ; and it is probable a glandered mare 

 would breed. 



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