TO LAMENESS- 



deration to the necessary and indeed indis** 

 pensabk article of gi:sT. 



This perpetual drudgery a horse of spirit 

 and bottom will (from the instinctive power 

 of emulation) bear up against with almost in-s- 

 credible fortitude, particularly, if well sup- 

 plied with a sufficiency of hay and corn ; but 

 the repeated struggles and efforts of nature 

 being at length totally subdued by the extre- 

 mity of fatigue, she is compelled to sink un- 

 der the burthen oi inhuman persecution, and a 

 general inability or universal lameness be- 

 comes the inevitable consequence. The cause- 

 requires but very little animadversion for the 

 purpose of either explanation or compre* 

 hension, as it may be with trifling attention 

 and reflection imiversally understood ; for the 

 tendons, by their almost perpetual extension 

 and contraction (without the least portion of 

 rest or inaction to restore their tone and elas- 

 ticity) become so extremely relaxed, as to be 

 rendered not only totally inadequate to the 

 purposes of motion and flexibility for which 

 they were formed, but to produce a general 

 tension upon all the surrounding parts. 

 The legs become full, round, inflamed, and 

 exceedingly painful; the horse alternately 



