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weakly. After all, let it not be inferred from these renaarks that 

 I recommend that any Horses, much less the tender and delicate, 

 should be suddenly stripped of their cloathing-, in order to render 

 ihem more hardy. 



Prudence, indeed, would seem to dictate that all great changes with 

 respect to heat and cold, over which we have any command, should 

 be brought about by gradual means. For, notwithstanding what has 

 been advanced by the late ingenious Doctor Beddoes on this subject, 

 it is an indisputable fact that sudden vicissitudes from heat to cold are 

 highly detrimental to Horses. 



Indeed, had that great chemical Philosopher had the opportunity of 

 eeeing one hundreth part of the instances of inflammatory at- 

 tacks, locked jaw, and other fatal diseases in Horses, springing Ynost 

 unequivocally from exposure to sudden vicissitudes from heat to cold, 

 which it has fallen to my lot to witness, he would not have ventured 

 to reason hypothetically, from a few solitary facts, which appear, at 

 best, to militate as mach against the principles of common sense, as 

 the established laws of Nature. Fully alive to the merits and in- 

 genuity of Doctor Beddoes, I am aware that this will appear to 

 many to be strong language, but in proportion to the weight which 

 his opinion on this vital point of my subject,^may be likely to carry, in 

 the medical or philosophical world, do I feel myself called upon to 

 reprobate notions which I know to be unfounded, and thus fearlessly 

 to encounter the censure of his indiscriminate admirers. Thus far, 

 however, I am willing to agree with Doctor Beddoes, by readily 

 admitting that sudden changes from heat to cold do by no means pro- 

 <]uce evil consequences of such magnitude to Horses, as vicissitudes 

 from cold to heat. To revert^ however, to the subject of Cloathing 



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