Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Chest-foundering.
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Examples
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This chest-founder is a singular complaint, and often a pest in kennels that are built in low situations, and where bad management prevails.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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A warm bath -- perchance a bleeding -- a dose or two of the castor-oil mixture, and an embrocation composed of spirit of turpentine, hartshorn, camphorated spirit, and laudanum, will usually remove it in two or three days, unless it is complicated with muscular sprains, or other lesions, such as the 'chest-founder' of kennels.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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Where the huntsman or whippers-in are too often in a hurry to get home, and turn their dogs into the kennel panting and hot; where the beds are not far enough from the floor, or the building, if it should be in a sufficiently elevated situation, has yet a northern aspect and is unsheltered from the blast, chest-founder prevails; and I have known half the pack affected by it after a severe run, the scent breast-high, and the morning unusually cold.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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