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nose witli a sort of snorting sound, to get rid both 

 of the dust, hay seeds, and other light particles 

 Hying about. A horse slightly broken- winded, 

 touched in the wind as the saying is, may do this ; 

 Ijut if it does not do it, the animal may bo put 

 down at once as so diseased. It is said that dealers 

 are able to give horses something that will tem- 

 porarily relieve a horse with broken wind, and so 

 enable them, to sell and get rid of them to the un- 

 wary ; and this is very possible, for a horse on 

 grass will not show broken wind in anything like 

 the same degree as it will if kept in a stable ; still, 

 this is a disease which is at once recognised by an 

 expert. Pinching a horse in the gullet and making 

 him cou2:h is no test of broken wind. The sound- 

 est colt bred will cough if half throttled, and so, 

 probably, would a man also. Broken wind is un- 

 known among horses in India. 



Coughs. — Horses are very subject to coughs. Coughs, 

 whether arising from inflammation in the head 

 and throat, or from the Imigs, or when the seat of 

 disease is broken wind. A horse with a cough is 

 unsound. In Boldcn v. Brogdcn, a different doc- 

 trine was laid down, and for some time it was held 

 as law that if a horse suffered from a temporary 

 injury, as in this case, only, such as a cough, it 

 was not unsoundness ; but since Baron Parke's 

 direction to the juiy in Coatcs v. Sfccens (g), it has 



{ff) 2 M. & R. 157. 



