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GETTING OUT OF ORDER. 



If you have purchased your horse fat, in good 

 external condition, and during the time he is 

 being put into internal condition, by stronger 

 exercise, &c., he should unexpectedly get stale, 

 and cease to improve ; if his skin should become 

 somewhat hide-bound ; his coat lie rough ; small 

 surfeit-bumps arise on his body ; his mouth have 

 the lampas, &c. ; should he, in short, get into 

 that lubberly state, like a " ship in irons," evi- 

 dently wrong, and neither go backwards nor 

 forwards, you have been keeping him in a hot, 

 shut-up stable, or, you have not duly attended 

 to all the directions here laid down. Whatever 

 has been the cause, treat according to " Putting 

 INTO Condition," commencing with the mild 

 drench of aloes and salts, followed by a week 

 of the J3eer-tonic, p. 148 ; if rather fleshy, three 

 or four of the Alteratives, p. 101, should suc- 

 ceed to the physic, previous to giving the beer- 

 tonic ; but never think of bleeding ; no, not if 

 he is as fat as a hog. 



