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STABLE MANAGEMENT. 



An the Management of Stables^ the first consideration ought to be 

 the temperature and purity of the air^ as there can be no question 

 that under the ordinary circumstances it is one of the most fruitful 

 sources of disease in Horses. And on this subject we shall be per- 

 fectly safe in applying the argument of analogy^ although 1 have in 

 another place cautioned my readers against its too indiscriminate 

 application. But the matter of heat (which chemists have very pro- 

 perly distinguished from the perception of its effects which our feel- 

 ings afford us) is so universally diffused^ and acts so great a part 

 in the grand phoenomena of the universe; affecting all bodies^ as 

 well those inanimate as those endued with life and consciousnessj 

 that we may safely affirm all nature to be in a great measure sub- 

 ject to the controul of its mighly influence. Nevertheless^ as if the 

 Horse in the state of domestication were necessarily to be proof 

 against the operation of this powerful element, and was expected to 

 furnish an exception to the established laws of nature ; we construct 



