BROKEN wind, among farriers, is a malady that happens to a horse when he is suffered to stand too long in the stable, without exercise: By this means he contracts gross and thick humours in such abundance, that, adhering to the hollow parts of his lungs, they stop his wind-pipe.
This distemper is known by the horse's heaving and drawing up his flanks together, and blowing wide his nostrils.
To cure this disorder, take the guts of a hedge-hog, dry
dry them, and pound them to powder, and give the horse two or three spoonfuls of it in a pint of wine or strong ale; then mix the rest with anise-feed, liquorice, and sweet butter, of which make round balls, or pills, and give him two or three of them after drink, and let him fast two or three hours.