' inflammation of the hungs, 9$ 



«coiild be fairly attributed to too great an indulgence in food, though 

 of a quality ever so nutritious. But, even in the furtherance of this 

 their favourite object/ which Grooms are always so over-solicitous 

 about, the means they use, generally defeats their own ends. For, 

 they are never satisfied, unless they be permitted to place before the 

 Horse, large quanfities of the article which they wish him to eat, and 

 ivhich they will leave for hours under his nose, after he has shown his 

 disinclination to take it.— Whereas, in all cases of this kind, the 

 appetite of the animal requires to be tickled, with the smallest pos- 

 sible quantity of food at a time, and the surest and speediest mode of 

 ^attaining the object we have in view, is, instantly to remove from his 

 organs of sight and smell, whatever he seems to have an aversion to 

 •take ; and to let him remain an hour or two, before it be offered to 

 him again. But it often happens, instead of adopting this method, 

 ■\vhich common sense would seem to dictate, that the rack is crammed 

 '\vith hay, and the manger stuffed with large quantities of Bran mash, 

 which frequently in the summer time remains so long untouched, that 

 -it becomes as sour as vinegar. 



Whereas, too much care cannot be taken nor too scrupulous at- 

 tention paid in these cases, to keep the rack and manger perfectly 

 clean, and free from every smell of an offensive kind. I have been 

 'thus minute, in detailing the particulars necessary to be attended to 

 "with respect to the management of food for Horses, recovering from 

 infkm.mations of the lungs ; not only because it is by far the most com- 

 mon disorder that is met with amongst them, but because the same 

 mode of treatment will be proper to be adopted for those recovering 

 from all other inflammatory diseases. — As the strength and appetite- 



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