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controversy; but that upon certain and pro- 

 per occasions, it will become universally 

 adopted under the conditional regulations so 

 accurately explained in our former volume of 

 this work. Those instructions, however, ap- 

 pertaining more particularly to the composi- 

 tion of various fomis, the act of administra- 

 tion, and the mode of action upon the intes- 

 tinal contents, we advert now to the more 

 remote consideration of its operative effects 

 upon the entire system, in justiiication of 

 its adoption previous to the annual exertions 

 of violence, that so evidently increases the 

 velocity of the blood. 



It may be remembered, that in mj^ former 

 volume, under the instructions for getting 

 horses into condition, I have recommended the 

 operation of bleeding in a few days after 

 being taken from grass ; by saying, '' a pro- 

 portion may be taken away, according to the 

 size, state, strength, and temperament of the 

 horse, w^ith due attention to the flesh lie may 

 have, or the impurities he may have imbibed 

 with his pasture.'' This passage is so truly 

 expressive, and conveys to the mind so much 

 in so short a manner, that I have been in- 



