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So prodigious, indeed, is the effect of pure air upon the enervated 

 frames of stabled Horses, that it seems to be the chief means, of 

 counterbalancing the various disadvantages which tliey frequently 

 have to encounter, especially when they are turned out, as they too 

 often are, on a sudden, in severe weather, and are by the change, re- 

 duced to a diet far less nutritious, than that which they have been accus- 

 tomed to in the stable. So that were it not for thefortunate circumstance 

 which has just been glanced at, namely, that of the grass making but 

 small calls upon the powers of the stomach, few Horses would be 

 found able to bear up, under such accumulated evils. Though it is 

 but right, however, to mention these facts, in order to strengthen 

 and illustrate, the great principle for which I am contending, I think 

 it no less proper, to caution the young Veterinarian, against adopting 

 the new-fangled notion, that would seem to support the proj)riety of 

 turning Horses, labouring under high inflammation of the lungs, out 

 of warm stables, into the external air, even in winter ; a practice 

 which I considej- to be absurd, and have known to be attended with 

 fatal consequences. 



I have found, however, from the conversation of such young prac- 

 titioners, as seemed inclined to adopt this method of treatment, that 

 they did not think it safe to have recourse to it, until the patient had 

 been largely and repeatedly bled, and had been blistered also ; so 

 that I think it fair to infer that such cases would have recovered 

 to as great a certainty, and more speedily too, if kept in a stable of 

 a proper temperature. For, common sense must tell us, that the 

 circumstance of exposing a Horse, in such a state, to the action of 

 a frosty atmosphere, must be the means of throwing more blood upon 

 the lungs, on account of the rigidly corrugated state of the skin. 



