PHYSIC, Sec. 41 



taken out (if the weather permit) morning 

 and evening, Vv^aiking him half an hour before 

 his water, and the fame after ; which fhculd 

 be taken at a pond of foft water, in pre- 

 ference to a fpring or running ftream, if pof- 

 fibie. Kis dreflings fliould be as conflant and 

 regular as his exercife, which having been 

 gradually ienglhened for the firft five or fix 

 days, he may then, after walking his ufual 

 time, have a moderate gallop (increafing it 

 daily in length and fpeed, according to ftate 

 and flrength), before he is taken to Vv^ater, 

 vralking him a proper time both before and 

 after ; by no means adopting that moit ridicu- 

 kiiSy contemptible^ and pernicious pracftice of 

 galloping your horfe tni?nediately after, in fer- 

 vile fubjedion to the illiterate opinion of warm- 

 ing the water in the horfe's belly ; a cuftom 

 that has, through the ignorance or folly of 

 fervants, proved the abfolute ruin of 7naj2y bun- 

 dreds, as will be clearly explained in the courfe 

 of our future remarks, when we comxe to fpeak 

 pf broken- winded horfes. 



This mode of exercife m^uft be conflantlyper- 

 fevered in without relaxation j his gallops night 

 ^nd morning fliould be increafed, as well as his 



walk ins: 



