CHAPTER XI. 
SPECIFIC DISEASES—THEIR VARIETIES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 
BROKEN WIND. 
Broken wind in the horse approaches very nearly to dry asthma in 
the human being. Man, however, can suit his work to his capabilities ; 
but all horses have only one employment, which, to be sure, may differ 
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CONVULSIVE SPASM, INDUCED BY FATIGUE, IN A BROKEN-WINDED HORSE. 
in its intensity; still, the most afflicted animal always has to perform the 
severest kind of draught. Let any person propose that individuals 
having dry asthma should pull loaded trucks, to earn their bread or to 
purchase a right to live; the cruelty of such a proposition would be 
apparent to the dullest sense. Yet is it the horse’s doom that, no matter 
with what disease it may be afflicted, the animal must work or die. Old 
or sick, weak or disabled, still the body’s toil must earn the creature’s 
food and the master’s profit. Spasm or agony can excuse no pause ; let 
the sufferer even slacken the space sufficiently to mitigate in some degree 
the pangs it endures, and the long whip, aided by the harsh voice of the 
driver, will urge the flagging cripple onward. The horse has no words 
to plead with; the signs of its distress are not understood; the law 
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