THICK WIND. 
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reives have exhibited traces of having been in a high state 
of inflammation, which must have occasioned great pain 
to the animal when breathing, and consequently have 
induced it to limit as far as possible the extent of the 
inhalations. 
Certain conformations of the chest predispose horses to 
this complaint. Those with a round chest are liable to 
be affected in the wind, and especially if they are fat. 
Large draught-horses are nearly all thick in the wind, as 
well as all which are hard worked while their stomach is 
full. All inflammatory affections of the lungs produce 
thick wind while the malady exists, and frequently leave 
it even when removed. Glanders are too often the remote 
cause of thick wind ; as the seat of this disease is so 
contiguous to the lungs and their air-passages, they soon 
become affected, and the air-cells are almost certain to be 
injured. 
Horses with a circular chest are less liable to this com¬ 
plaint than those of a more contracted form. Those which 
have been kept much in a stable, and without being regu¬ 
larly exercised, will manifest symptoms of thick wind when 
trotted or galloped. But if they are cautiously trained to 
this action to which they have not been accustomed, then 
this will wear off, and they may be ridden without being 
in the least affected in the wind. 
Remedies. —This disease does not come within the scope 
of medical treatment: all that can be done is to guard 
against overloading the stomach with heating food, and not 
to exercise the animal to any extent while his stomach is 
full. Abstain from subjecting him to hard labour, or 
trotting and galloping him violently. By these precautions 
the affection will gradually subside, and in time he may 
become perfectly sound. 
