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with another ; it must be candidly acknow- 

 ledged, that instances frequently occur w^ere 

 horses, perfectly clean, healthy, and without 

 any visible cause to suspect foulness in the 

 body or impurity in the blood, have, by pro- 

 per attention to stable management, good 

 feeding, and regular exercise, been brought 

 into the field in no degraded condition, and 

 gone through the season w^ith a moderate de- 

 gree of perfection. Though this should not 

 be attempted till an attentive observation to 

 the state of the coat, eyes, legs, lieeh, the 

 xcind in brushing gallops, and the quality or 

 appearance of the perspirative matter in the 

 act of transpiration, may justify a reliance 

 upon the faith of experiments ; as latent im- 

 purities or gross viscidities may remain dor- 

 mant in the constitution, till roused into ac- 

 tion by effects too numerous and extensive 

 to admit of reiterated explanation, without 

 deviating too largely from the subject it is our 

 present purpose to pursue. 



Having introduced remarks that were un- 

 avoidable to demonstrate the consistency of 

 carrying off such superfiux as may consti- 



