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 Mixed food, as bran, chaff. Sec. should not be 

 given in this disease ; but chopped carrots are often 

 found serviceable. If a journey is to be attempted 

 on a broken-winded horse, any oily iluid poured 

 down the throat w ill assist the breathing during that 

 dav. 



WIND, THICK. 



The foregoing treatment applies equally to thick 

 wind ; only here, if the complaint is not of long 

 standing, the addition of a blister to the throat is 

 sometimes of considerable service. The 



Liquid Sweating Blister [page 17] rubbed 

 into the tliroat, half way down the neck, every morn- 

 ing and evening, for three or four days, will answer 

 the end. Here, likewise, there is greater relief to be 

 hoped from a course of the 



Cough Balls [page 15] continued sometime. 



WINDGALLS. 



Motion requires, in most instances, a fluid to take 

 off the effects of friction : the friction of the bones is. 

 prevented by the joint oil, and that of tiie tendons 

 by little bags containing a very slippery mucus. Now, 

 as motion increases, so this liiucus increases; and 

 hence, in very hard-w'orked horses, these bags become 

 very much enlarged in the neighbourhood of consider- 

 able* tendons. It is these pveternaturally enlarged 

 mucous capsules that form what are termed icindguUs, 

 but \\hich do not lame, unless they become so large 

 as to press on any of the parts, and impede their 

 f nictions ; but tl.ey always shew tlie effect of consider- 

 able exertion, and hence evince the liability to future 



