140 THE HORSE. 



sequence of the disease. The loud or long cough, 

 a symptom of cold taken, or sore throat, is plainly- 

 distinguishable from the cough of broken or imper- 

 fect wind. There is yet a class of sound, but thick 

 winded horses, in which this defect, if such it be, 

 does not appear on a show, but in action, and when 

 first put into a speedy pace. But here lies the dif- 

 ference between them and the broken winded, their 

 wind mends gradually, and comes more freely on 

 continuance, whilst that of the latter becomes more 

 and more distressing to the animal as he proceeds. 

 This thickness of the strong and long winded is ob- 

 servable, even when he is in the highest condition. 

 The well known customary method of causing the 

 horse to cough is by compressing, between finger 

 and thumb the top of the trachea, or windpipe; 

 with some this will succeed instantly, and without 

 the use of any painful and dangerous violence ; others 

 I have seen with which the utmost force could not 

 prevail. The violence used by your hard and strong 

 fingered fellows in this case always occasions great 

 pain to the horse, and has sometimes been the cause 

 of dangerous inflammation, preventing the horse from 

 swallowing his food ; or it may ultimately produce 

 roaring by narrowing the circumference of the 

 pipe. This symptom, one of the worst and most 

 distressing of imperfect wind in the horse, is suffi- 

 ciently described in the first instance by the term. 

 The animal, in work, makes a roaring noise in the 

 expulsion of his wind. The mode of discovering 

 this, in use by dealers, is to give the horse a smart 

 stroke on the flank, which causes him, if a roarer, 



