124 BROKEN M'lNP. 



Source of Broken Wind. 



but in all respects appear quite healthful, and 

 can eat his meat as well as those horses that have 

 no such disorder upon them. When, therefore, 

 the diaphragm, heart, lungs, &c. all appear sound, 

 and free from any ulceration whatsoever, it will 

 be proper to inspect further into this disorder, 

 in»order to find out its true source. Its seat has 

 appeared to the author of this work to be in 

 that passage of the head between the nostrils 

 and the windpipe, but in general very near the 

 windpipe; or otherwise a broken-winded horse 

 would not be so liable to make such a whistling 

 noise with the air through his nostrils : hence it 

 is common when a person suspects a horse to be 

 broken-winded, that he pinches him with his fin- 

 gers and thumb on the part affected ; and if his 

 wind be affected, he in general coughs immediately. 

 If a horse afflicted with this complaint be kept in 

 the stable on dry meat, with little or no exercise, 

 and then watered, and afterwards rode three or 

 four miles, he will discharge a large quantity of 

 matter from his nostrils ; or if he be turned out to 



