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during the inflammatory action has become thickened and has not 

 had time to become resolved into its normal healthy condition. 



Further, the wind pipe or trachea may from various causes, pro- 

 duce an unnatural sound in breathing in consequence of an altera- 

 tion of shape due either to injury or inflammation of the lining 

 membrane; probably one of the most frequent causes of difl&cult 

 respiration and making a noise is that which arises from disease 

 of the air tubes in the lungs and the substance of the lung tissue 

 which surrounds these tubes; among thoroughbred horses the 

 disease known as ' ' Newmarket fever, ' ' to the consideration of 

 which a special chapter will be devoted, is responsible for respira- 

 tory defects in far greater measure than is generally acknow- 

 ledged, in consequence of its after effects; these result in a com- 

 plete alteration in the general structure of the lungs which renders 

 it impossible for the animal to draw in that amount of air that is 

 requisite to enable it to sustain prolonged exertion; simple inflam 

 mation of the lungs also leaves behind similar injurious conse- 

 quences and unless a suitable remedy is administered capable of 

 restoring the lungs to a healthy state by getting rid of the 

 diseased products which are the result of the inflammation thi 

 animal is rendered permanently defective in its breathing; there 

 is reason, however, to believe that such a result may be attained 

 in the majority of cases under homoeopathic treatment, and this 

 is the chief point of interest for our consideration. 



The whole of the list of cases, including even the inost serious, 

 is due in a great measure to the inflammatory process which ex- 

 ercises a marvellous influence upon the various tissues of which 

 the respiratory tract is made up, and effects such changes that the 

 shape of the passage in its whole length is more or less altered; 

 and in this way the production of unnatural sounds in the act of 

 breathing is brought about; this being the case, it is deserving of 

 serious consideration whether any drug exists that is capable of 

 exercising a potent influence upon this uniform condition of affairs; 

 if so, there is reasonable hope that relief may be afforded in most 

 cases and cure in many others; but it may be argued, and with 

 no little show of reason, that this does not account for the struc- 

 tural change in the larynx due to a wasting of the muscles which 

 in its turn is accounted for by a lack of nerve stimulus, the effect 

 of which accounts for true roaring; but here a difference of 



