70 0/ ^ BROKEN-WIND. 



The pre- Hence it appears that this enormous 



ternacural fize of the lungs, and the fpace they oc- 



lurgs the ^"PY' t)y hindering the free adlion of 



chief the midriff, is the chief caufe of this dif- 



caufe. order ; and as the fubftance of^the lungs 



was found more flefliy than ufual, they of 



courfe muft lofe a great deal of their 



fpring and tone. 



ThcdilH- This flefhinefs and fize of the lungs 



culty in may in a great meafure be the caufe, why 



l)reathing the infpirations in broken winded horfes 



fQ^^ are difproportionately flow ♦, for we may 



obferve that they draw in their breath 



flowly, their flanks filling up, and riflng 



with difficulty : but that their flanks fall 



fuddenly, and their breath burfl:s forth 



with violence, both from the mouth and 



noftrils ; infomuch that a man in the 



dark, by holding his hands on a horfe's 



mouth and nofe, rnay eafily diTpover if he 



is broken- winded. 



Brtken- Whoever conflders a broken-wind in 

 wind in- this light, muft own that it may be reek- 

 curable. Qne(j among the incurable difl:empers of 

 horfes ; and that all the boafted preten- 

 fions to cure, are vain and frivolous, fince 

 the utmoft ikjll can amount to no more 



than 



