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thick wind. 



Thick or broken wind is sometimes connected with 



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If a harsh hollow cough is accompanied by a staring 

 coat, and the appearance of worms, — a few worm-balls 

 may expel the worms, and remove the irritation of the 

 intestinal canal. If it proceeds from irritability of the 

 air passages, which will be discovered by the horse 

 coughing after drinking, or when he first goes out of 

 the stable in the morning, or by his occasionally snort- 

 ing out thick mucus from the nose, medicines may be 

 given, and sometimes with advantage, to diminish irrita- 

 tion generally. Small doses of digitalis, emetic tartar, 

 and nitre, administered every night, frequently have a 

 beneficial effect, especially when mixed with tar. These 

 balls should be regularly given for a considerable time. 

 A blister, extendmg from the root of one ear to that of 

 the other, and reaching six or eight inches down the 

 windpipe, has been tried, and often with good effect, on 

 the supposition that the irritation may exist at the roots 

 of the tongue. Feeding has much influence. Too much 

 dry feed, and especially chaff, increases it. It is aggra- 

 vated when the horse is suffered to eat his litter. One 

 of the best remedies for an obstinate cough that bids fair 

 te become chronic, is a seton under the throat, which 

 should be kept seven or eight weeks. Carrots afford 

 decided relief. 



When chronic cough chiefly occurs after eating, the 

 seat of the disease is evidently in the substance of the 

 lungs. In the violent effort of the lungs to discharge 

 their functions, when laboring under congestion, irrita- 

 tion is produced, and the act of coughmg is the conse- 

 quence. 



HEAVES OR BROKEN WIND. 



A troublesome cough, and sometimes of long contin- 

 uance, is the foundation of the disease, or indicates that 

 irritable state of the bronchial membrane with which 



