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organized structure ; but there are jocky tricks by which 

 they can be so far palliated as to be made to disappear, fur 

 two or three days' time, under any moderate observation. 

 But let the horse be galloped a hundred yards, at his best, 

 up hill ; let his rider spring quickly to the ground, and 

 apply his ear to the chest, and the double expiration will 

 be clearly heard, even if the flanks do not show — as, how- 

 ever, in ninety cases out of a hundred, they will, by their 

 jerking and laborious collapse — the extent of the affection. 

 The minor and secondary modifications of this disease are, 

 thick wdnd, roaring, wheezing, and whistling — all of which, 

 more or less certainly, degenerate into broken wind, and 

 are to be carefully looked for, and when detected, reso- 

 lutely avoided. They all arise from a diseased or ob- 

 structed condition of some of the air passages, whether of 

 the lungs themselves, the windpipe, the bronchial tubes, 

 or the nostrils. 



Thick wind is produced by insufficient space for the 

 play of the lungs, or for the issue of the air through the 

 bronchial tubes, owing to the thickening of their mucous 

 lining consequent on previous inflammation. It produces 

 laborious breathing, only effected by prodigious exertion 

 of the lungs; often extends almost to suffocation, and 

 nearly always leads to broken wind, or total disorganiza- 

 tion of the structure of the lungs — of some portion or ram- 

 ification of which it indicates either an orignally faulty 

 formation, or a diseased condition. 



EoARiNG- is a modification of thick wind, produced by 

 the existence of a ring of coagulated matter, or a thick- 

 ening of a portion of the mucous membrane, within the 

 windpipe, Avhich produces a contraction of that passage, 

 and, preventing the regular issue of the breadth, renders 

 some exertion necessary to expel it, and causes a loud 

 puffing or roaring sound, similar to that of sti'ong and 



