A complete system of farriery, and veterinary medicine : containi[n]g a compendium of the veterinary art, or an accurate description of the diseases of horses, and their mode of treatment; the anatomy and physiology of the foot, and the principles and practice of shoeing. With observations on stable management, feeding, exercise, and condition / by James White ... newly arranged by the publishers, in which are introduced the late and important treatises upon the glanders, farcy, staggers, inflammation of the lungs and bowels, the prevention and treatment of lameness, and precautions to be observed in purchasing horses. By the same author. Illustrated by eighteen elegant plates.

  • White, James, -1825
Date:
1832
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Credit: A complete system of farriery, and veterinary medicine : containi[n]g a compendium of the veterinary art, or an accurate description of the diseases of horses, and their mode of treatment; the anatomy and physiology of the foot, and the principles and practice of shoeing. With observations on stable management, feeding, exercise, and condition / by James White ... newly arranged by the publishers, in which are introduced the late and important treatises upon the glanders, farcy, staggers, inflammation of the lungs and bowels, the prevention and treatment of lameness, and precautions to be observed in purchasing horses. By the same author. Illustrated by eighteen elegant plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [43] When the membrane which lines the windpipe and all its branches has been affected with inflammation, it becomes thick- ened in consequence, and the capacity of the lungs will of course be diminished: this will cause aquicJcncss in respiration, but not that irregular or unequal kind of breathing by which broken wind is characterised. The complaint which is thua produced, is commonly termed thick ivind; and the horse so af- fected, if made to move rapidly, wheeszes like an asthmatic per- son, and is unfit for any violent exercise. It not unfrequently happens, I believe, that this complaint proves a cause of broken wind; for when the membrane is much thickened, many of the finer branches of the windpipe are probably obstructed in a greater or less degree: the violent coughing which usually ac- companies this disease, will, under such circumstances, be very liable to rupture some of the air-cells. The same effect may be produced by violent exercise when the stomach is distended with food or water. 1 believe, however, that a plethora or ful- ness of habit, is most commonly the remote cause of broken wind. In that case there is generally an undue determination of blood to the lungs, whereby the secretion within the air-ves- sels is increased, and perhaps rendered somewhat acrimonious and viscid, exciting a violent and troublesome cough.* Whenever a horse appears to be imperfect in the wind, if he cough violently, particularly when exercised, with unusual working of the flanks, and if at the same time he appear to be in good health and spirits, feeding heartily, and eager for water, sioncd by a rupture of one or more of the air-cells, or minute branches of the windpipe; there being no othersource from which it could have been pro- duced. Now this was a case of simple broken wind, which may be easily distinguished, not by an unusually quick motion of the flanks, bat by an unequal motion. The flanks of a broken-winded horse arc a lon<? time in drawing up or contracting, which shows the difficulty he feels in expelling the air from his lungs, or in expiring; but when that'is effected, the flanks drop suddenly, which shows that the air enters the lungs, or that the animal inspires with much greater ease than he expires. It often happens, however, that broken wind is complicated with thicknest of wind, and, as I have be- fore observed, is sometimes occasioned by it, which probably gave rise to the opinion we have endeavored to refute. (Hee Cough, »istlima, and Thick' ness of Wind, Appendix.) •It is not very improbable that air is sometimes secreted or formed in the cellular membrane of the lungs, in which case a horse would be broken winded without any rupture of the air-cells. I have seen a horse become broken winded rather suddenly, and when a violent cough had not preceded. 1 have also seen the symptoms of broken wind removed by turning a horse out, but they returned when he was taken into the 6table again ; and I recol- lect a horse that would sometimes breathe very well, and at other times ap- pear completely broken winded. From these circumstances, it does not apper improbable that the cause of broken wind, is sometimes a morbid for- mation of air, in the cellular membrane of the lungs.