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upon the article of nutrition, circulatidnV 

 evacuation, and exercife, it muft be perfedly 

 and fyftematically clear to every comprehen-i 

 fion ; that a horfe too plethoric in habit, too 

 much loaded with flelh, too vifcid in the 

 itate of his blood, or too little accuftomed 

 to exercife, can never be brought into fuch 

 ftrong exertions as the chace, without a 

 very great probability of exciting inflam- 

 mation, that may terminate in different de- 

 grees of difeafe, danger, and difquietude. 

 Admitting therefore its indifpenfable neceffity 

 with horfes of the above defcription, it mufl 

 be taken into the aggregate, that although 

 great inconveniencies and diftreffing circum- 

 stances may pojfibly arife, from the want of 

 precaution in not bringing fuch preventatives 

 into ufe, where the frame is replete with im- 

 purities ; it can by no means follow that by 

 the omiffion, with horfes in any tolerabk 

 condition y the probable confequence becomes 

 inevitable. 



To draw the line of diftincftion between 

 fubjed-S rendering it a matter of neceffity 

 'With one, or prudence and prevention only 



with 



