242 COLD, WHERE SEATED ; [BOOK II. 



however, for this opinion, and not exactly in ac- 

 cordance with our own, several of that horse's get 

 turned out roarers, and thus set the matter at rest. 



CHRONIC COUGH 



Is already denned to be the remains of an ill-cured 

 cold, which may or may not have been a cough 

 originally. It bears close analogy to simple broken 

 wind that is seated in the wind-pipe or its branches, 

 of which it may be considered a continuation, or 

 the natural consequence of neglect, with more in- 

 veteracy. How this effect would so accrue was 

 described at page 233 — 237 ; and the analogy is still 

 further corroborated by the fact, that the treatment 

 for cough of long continuance is precisely that 

 which is found serviceable for broken wind, the 

 situation of the two disorders making the only 

 difference in either respect. Again, the symptoms 

 of both may, by long and careful treatment, be so 

 reduced as to seem cured, for a longer or shorter 

 period, and both will return in the shape of roaring, 

 upon the animal being put to sudden hard work, 

 as mentioned in the last pages. The corresponding 

 symptoms of both are also so nearly alike, that we 

 merely comply with custom while recapitulating these 

 for the use of readers who might not choose to 

 consider that horse broken-winded, which to all 

 appearance is only affected with " an old cold in 

 the wind-pipe." But, let the first term appear to 

 an owner ever so formidable in sound, the latter is 



