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double part : as they do when the muscular border 

 of the midriff is affected. But all these, though 

 rightly considered different diseases at the com- 

 mencement, in the horse, very shortly become one 

 common affection, more or less, of all the organs 

 of respiration : inflammation predominates over 

 the whole series ; and if the performance of his 

 duties does not render them fatal, an injudicious 

 treatment will fix upon him an incurable disorder, 

 until the knife terminates his usefulness. 



Lafosse, junior, observes, that, " Flat-chested 

 horses are almost always subject to consumption, 

 whilst (again) consumption narrows the capacity of 

 the chest, and reproduces itself — there is no remedy 

 for mis-construction." He further says, " Short 

 wind is either produced by disorders of the breast, 

 or it is a fault of construction, and both are irreme- 

 diable. Such a horse is generally of less use than 

 one that is thick winded" 



Adhesion of the lungs to the adjacent parts is of 

 frequent recurrence, and happens often, if not always, 

 upon inflammatory attacks, and on excessive quick 

 and long work. It goes off with rest and the cooling 

 regimen, after showing a staring coat about the 

 chest, and is a disorder that belongs to the abdo- 

 minal viscera also ; but we know not to a certainty 

 when it prevails while the animal lives, and, there- 

 fore, do not mean to treat it as a specific disease. 

 The reader will find numerous particles of infor- 

 mation on this very interesting topic referred to in 

 the Index, under " Adhesion and Cohesion." 



