302 HUNTERS. 



upon the article of nutrition, circulation, 

 evacuation, and exercise, it must be perfectly 

 and systematically clear to every comprehenr- 

 sion ; that a horse too plethoric in habit, too 

 much loaded with flesh, too viscid in the 

 state of his blood, or too little accustomed 

 to exercise, can never be brought into 

 such strong exer(:ions as the cha.He, without 

 a very great probability of exciting inflam- 

 mation, that may terminate in different de- 

 grees of disease, danger, and disquietude. 

 Admitting therefore its indispensable necessi- 

 ty with horses of the above description, it 

 must be taken into the aggregate, that al- 

 though great inconveniences and distressing 

 circumstances may possibly arise from the 

 want of precaution in not bringing such pre- 

 ventatives into use, where the frame is re- 

 plete with impuritities ; it can by no means 

 follow that by the omission, with horses in 

 any tolerable condition, the probable conse- 

 quence becomes inevitable. 



To draw the line of distinction between 

 subjects rendering it a matter of necessity 

 liith onc^ or prudence and prevention only 



