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gested, and appear to have a peculiarly beneficial effect on the 
respiratory system. 
It is from the want of proper attention to the feeding that 
many horses become broken winded, even in the straw-yard. 
There is little nutriment in the provender which they there find ; 
and to obtain enough for the support of life, they are compelled 
to keep the stomach constantly full, and pressing upon the lungs. 
It has been the same when they have been turned out in coarse 
and innutritive pasturage. Here the stomach was perpetually 
gorged, and the habitual pressure on the lungs cramped and 
confined their action, and inevitably ruptured the cells when the 
horse gambolled with his companions, or was wantonly driven 
about. 
Juxercise .—Next in importance stands exercise. The pursive 
or broken-winded horse should never stand idle in the stable a 
single day. It is almost incredible how much may be done by 
attention to food and exercise. There is scarcely a hunt in which 
there is not a thick or broken-winded horse, that, by judicious 
feeding and training, is enabled to acquit himself very respectably 
in the field. The broken-winded horse may thus be rendered 
comfortable to himself, and no great nuisance to his owner; — 
but inattention to feeding, or one hard journey—the animal un¬ 
prepared, and the stomach full,—may bring on inflammation, 
congestion,and death. Occasional physic, or alterative medicine, 
will often give considerable relief. 
ON STRANGULATION OF THE BOWELS IN THE 
HORSE. 
_ZL/ Mr. W. A. Cartw^right, Whitchurch. 
On Saturday, June 22d. 1833, a cart horse, three years old, 
the property of Mr. Hughes, of Blaco, was brought to me having 
the belly-ach. 
About two in the afternoon he was turned out to grass, having 
been previously w'orking during the former part of the day, and 
having eaten a little clover whilst baiting at dinner-time. At 
four he was seen in the field having symptoms of belly-ach, w’as 
taken home and drenched with salt and water, and immediately 
brought to me. 
Six p.M. —Has the general symptoms of belly-ach, and is 
swelled a little: gave him two ounces of the spirit of tuipentine, 
one ounce of the tincture of opium, twenty drops of the oil of pep¬ 
permint, and a dose of physic, being a bad one to drench. 
Eight .—No better. Gave him four ounces of the spirit of 
turpentine and one ounce of the tincture of opium in some gruel, 
