226 EXERCISE. 



cise,and with that bleeding an accurate exa- 

 mination of the blood when cold ; and this 

 upon the basis of my former opinion again 

 repeated, that should the* crassoxnentiun (or 

 coaguhun) be proportionally greater in quan- 

 tity to the seru??i (or watery part) than tliti 

 seriun to the coagulum, I should not hesitate 

 a moment to pronounce such horse to b^ 

 abbve himself n\ condition, more particularly 

 if the blood has acquired a vkcid tenaciiy^ 

 perceptible upon its surface. 



When I say above himself in condition^ I 

 wish to be understood, he is in the very state 

 we have already described, viz the whole 

 frame i:^ overloaded by a super-abundance 

 of nutrilnen^, not carried off by exercise ; and 

 the impurities thus collected, to have no re- 

 ference to latent disease, but merely tlie effect - 

 of sucli supertax suspended in the constitu- 

 tion, producing a temporary stagnation of 

 what 1 have already defined humouhs to be, 

 for want of I'Madual motion and consequent 

 evacuations. This beinii" the exact state of a 

 horse labouring under plethora, and its con- 

 comitants from fulness only, I should innne- 

 diat^ly adopt the use of a mash each night, 



