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remaiks, upon this important branch of my subject, And I do this the 

 more readily, or rather I feel it more incumbent upon me so to do, be- 

 cause I am perfectly satisfied that the state of inaction, in close stables, 

 >vhich many proprietors enjoin their managers or agents, to subject 

 Horses to, in order to bring them about after very severe work, be- 

 comes the very means of engendering these formidable complaints. 

 For, this method of treatment quickly and inevitably induces that 

 condition of the frame, which the disciples of the late Dr. Brown, 

 call, in the language of their master, the state of indirect debilty. A 

 atate peculiaily propitious, to the production of farcy or glanderous 

 matter, in the system of Horses. So that if people were intent upon 

 manufacturing (if I may use the phrase) a quantity of this poison, in 

 order to inoculate sound and healthy Horses with, they could not take 

 means more effectual for the accomplishment of their object, than by 

 keeping such as are feeble and worn-down, in hot stables, feeding 

 them on nu(ritious food, and confini^ng them at the same time, to 

 a state of inaction. 



And it is owing, eliiefly, beyond all question, to the circumstance, 

 of the extreme regularity with which it is carried on, that worn-do wit 

 hunters and Blood-Horses frequently last for many years in mail and 

 Stage-coaches, and sustain that prodigious quantity of labour, whicii 

 but for this regularity, diet however nutritious, and grooming howe- 

 ver complete, would be found perfectly inadequate to enable them to 

 ffo throusrh. For, besides that the mere muscular exertion alone, 

 (speaking in a mere abstract vIcav of the effects of exercise) undoubt- 

 edly does a great deal in keeping up a generally healthful state of the 

 system, we ought not to overlook some of the more striking effects, 

 with which it is, almost always, attended; especially the circumstance of 



