CHAP. II.] DISEASES OF THE LUNGS, REVIEW OF. Ill 



nates the patient " a roarer." Chronic cough brings 

 on " broken wind" of which there are two sorts ; 

 and consumption usually follows the long conti- 

 nuance of either. So, when either has continued 

 awhile, and reduced the animal's strength ever so 

 little, he is said to be in a consumjition; " worn out," 

 is also a common phrase, as is " rotten ; " " de- 

 bilitated," and " done for," stand a little higher in 

 gentility; but all mean, that there is small chance 

 of his recover?/. 



Pulmonary consumption is the only kind which 

 may justly be attributed to constitutional defect; 

 i. e. heated blood, with viscidity, causing over- 

 much action of the parts (see section 32), when 

 the pulse becomes powerful and quickened, and 

 the horse seems anxious and fearful. Should it 

 subside by judicious treatment, or the natural 

 strength of the horse, he commonly retains so much 

 of its effects as to cause great danger whenever he 

 may catch cold, or be worked too hard. This at- 

 tack is too frequently neglected, or put off with the 

 remark, " only a little touched in the wind," un- 

 less by the addition of a cold, the disorder comes 

 on rapidly, when it is termed " inflammation of the 

 lungs," and the animal goes off in four or five days, 

 if he be not promptly relieved. On dissection, the 

 parts are found spotted with a livid colour, and 

 evident gangrene : every variation, indeed, is equally 

 appalling to humanity, and we have often wondered 

 how the horse could have lived an hour under such 

 horrid circumstances. 



