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You muft exa&ly obferve if the Horfe's Flanks 

 redouble as he is breathing, which is, when having 

 breath'd and drawn up his Flank to him, he letteth 

 it down on a fudden, and maketh at the very fame 

 time, and with the fame breath, a redoubled mo- 

 tion, as if he breathed a fecond time with one and 

 the fame breath. You mult alfo obferve if the mo- 

 tion of his Flanks appeareth at the upper part of his 

 fhort Ribs, which is a Ugn that his Flanks are al- 

 tered, but yet a great deal more if they beat and 

 make their motion at the very top, and juft by his 

 Back- bone, or too low and over-againft the flat 

 part of his Thighs. If the Horfe be far gone with 

 this Diftemper, his Lungs will be dried up and 

 cleave to the Ribs, and there is no cure. 



After you are certain that the Hoife ? s Flank is 

 right and found, you are to obferve if he be not a 

 Wheeler or Blower, which is quite different from Pur- 

 finefs. For this Wheezing does not proceed from 

 any defect in the Lungs, but from the narrownefs 

 of the Paffages between the Bones and Griftles of 

 the Nofe. And thefe Horfes do not want Wind *, 

 for although they blow fo exceffively when they are 

 exercifed, yet their Flanks will be but little mov'd, 

 and in the fame condition as they mould be. How- 

 ever it is difpleafing to the generality of People, who 

 for the moft part take them to be Purfy. 



There are other Horfes again which are thick- 

 winded, that is, who have their breathing a little 

 more free than the former, but neither the one nor 

 the other are agreeable, or for any great Service. 

 Yet a Man may be miftaken in it ; for when a 

 Horfe hath been kept a long time in the Stable 

 without exercife, he will at firit riding be out of 

 Wind, although he be neither a Blower nor thick- 

 winded. 



There are forrie Wheezefs or Blowers which rattle 

 and make a noife through their Nofe } but this Im- 



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