CHAP. I.] RESTORES FREE RESPIRATION. 239 



With mucilage sufficient to form two balls ; and give 

 one on each of two successive days, but repeat not 

 too often, as the opium is liable to harden the 

 fceces ; give salt in his corn, 2 ounces daily. 



If there is reason to apprehend the horse swal- 

 lows his corn without grinding it, as commonly hap- 

 pens, bruised or sodden oats should be given, after 

 the bowels have been discharged by purgatives, 

 should alteratives not be deemed equal to the ur- 

 gency of the case. Those prescribed at pages 242, 

 244, are applicable in this case also ; inasmuch as 

 the two disorders bear very near resemblance to 

 each other in this respect. Give green food, succu- 

 lent roots, and bran-mashes, as there recommended. 

 Let the water be soft, not too cold, and given in 

 small quantities at a time, and frequently. 



As broken wind produces disordered bowels, and 

 is reproduced by it, the connexion or sympathy 

 between the two, thus plainly demonstrated, should 

 be employed in the alleviation of the former in all 

 its stages, when it has been of long standing. The 

 means of attaining this object have been shown ; and 

 when the value of the animal under treatment is 

 equal to the care and expense, it frequently recovers 

 so much of his former powers of free respiration, 

 that his cure will seem for a short time fully ef- 

 fected, and if so, up to a certain quantity of work, 

 and to a certain speed ; but extend either too far, 

 and the disease is irremediably fixed. These ap- 

 pearances, however, are completely illusive ; upon 

 the least extra work he relapses into his former dif- 

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