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THE VETERINARY ART IN INDIA. 
be expected, which is very difficult after it has continued some 
time. If the horse is in full condition, take four or five quarts 
of blood from a large orifice, which may be followed by a purge, 
to empty the intestinal canal. This will relieve the diaphragm 
or midriff from pressure, and thereby afford more room for the 
obstructed lungs ; and, in order to assist this, his food should be 
lessened in quantity, and increased in quality. His water must 
be given in small quantities, not exceeding a gallon at one time, 
but may be repeated three or- even four times a-day if necessary, 
as the course of medicine recommended may, perhaps, increase 
the animal’s thirst. 
The physic may be as follows : — 
Take of aloes one ounce, calomel one drachm, oil of aniseed 
or mint twenty drops; soft soap sufficient to soften it to a mass. 
If this medicine does not operate in forty-eight hours, it may 
be repeated. After it operates, one of the following bolusses may 
be given twice a-day for a month or six weeks : — 
Take of gum ammoniacum twelve ounces, myrrh four ounces, 
powder of squills one ounce, vinegar of squills or turpentine 
sufficient to soften to a mass, and divide into twenty-four 
bolusses. 
If gum ammoniacum. or myrrh cannot be procured, yellow 
resin may be employed as a substitute. 
The animal should not be exposed to any current of air, and 
his exercise should be particularly attended to. At the com- 
mencement, gentle exercise twice a-day may suffice ; then a 
gentle gallop morning and evening will be necessary, if the lungs 
are not found to be too much oppressed. 
If the obstructions are not removed, the lymph will sometimes 
accumulate and burst the cells. This rupture of air-vessels will 
also proceed from violent exercise, in which the lungs are so much 
exerted as to rupture the air-vessels, which, decreasing in num- 
ber, increase in magnitude. In inspiration, the air finding no 
resistance, rushes into and fills the lungs in an instant ; but, the 
economy of these cells being destroyed, there is not that equal 
pressure in exhaling, and the animal is therefore very consider- 
ably longer in expelling it than in the sound state ; while in thick 
wind the air enters the obstructed cells with difficulty, and is 
with the same difficulty expelled. 
A rupture of these cells is better known by the term broken 
wind. 
The only palliation this disease is capable of receiving must be 
confined to the diet, as recommended in an obstruction, or thick 
wind. If the animal could be kept on a pasture land, he would 
be less affected than at his piquet on dry ground. 
