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But, the Horse is takeH out of his warm apartment, (the stable) 

 and instead of being protected by additional Cloathing', is stripped 

 of that which covers hiui, and is expected to bear this violent and 

 monstrous change with impunity. 



The system is thus suddenly called upon to resist tlie united effects 

 of the cold air which is taken into the Lungs, and of that which is 

 applied to the surface of the body. Its powers are, it is true, pro- 

 digious, but not always adeCfuate to the prevention of the conse- 

 quences which may reasonably be expected to result, from such a pre- 

 posterous mode of treatment. Hence, the staring of the coat which 

 follows from the .sudden application of the cold to the surface, which 

 depends upon the corrugation of the skin, and a necessarily dimi- 

 nished diameter of the blood vessels of that integutnent. 



Now, it must be evident to the most common capacity, and cannot 

 require much anatomical or philosophical knowledge to perceive, that 

 in this corrugated contracted state of the skin, less blood must be 

 sent to it than in its previously relaxed state, and, consequently, 

 more will be thrown upon the internal parts ; and thus Inflammati- 

 ons of the Lungs and Pleura, Sore Throats, and Glandular Swellings, 

 will frequently be the consequence of such treatment. 



If Cloathing, tlieretore, be used for Horses at all, it certainly ought 

 to be used upon the same principle which we use it for ourselves, (so 

 far I mean as concerns the affair of temperature) namely, by in- 

 creasing the quantity of it, when the animal is about to be exposed 

 to the action of an atmosphere, colder than that which he is usually 

 subjected to. 



But, people are apt to imagine that the additional heat produced 

 by the exercise which tlie animal undergoes, will compensate for the 



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