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Various causes of Broken Wind. 



CHAP. XXIII. 



BROXEX WIND. 



Broken wind, in oreneral, seems to be but 

 little understood by farriers and others. Mr. 

 Gibson says, that hasty feeding a horse for sale 

 causes the lungs and heart to grow, and all the 

 contents within the chest to increase so uiuch in a 

 few years, as to be nearly twice. their natural size. 

 This, however, never can be owing to hasty feed- 

 ing, but more properly to the parts being over- 

 stretched to prevent suffocation. It is said by 

 Mr. Coleman to be a rupture of the air-cells of the 

 lungs, which (I have no doubt) has been the case 

 in many instances, and has been brought on by a 

 termination on them from violent exercise on a 

 full stomach. A horse may distend his nostrils, 

 and work in. his flanks to the greatest degree, 

 when put to a little harder labour than common, 



