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to be sufficiently well known, to determine when he is at his best ; and 

 if he be so, with a good shew of covering for his bones, the better ; 

 he will, past all doubt, run the faster for it, and I should have as little 

 doubt, the longer. Eleanor was not under-trained, since, if I have 

 been rightly informed, she was so often amiss in her legs. Indeed, 

 I am inclined to think, that the advocates for severe work, Avould not 

 have made more of her, than did her present proprietor. 



SECTION XXIV. 



THE HORSE IN A STATE OF DISEASE SHOEING. 



THE Horse, in a domesticated state, is subject to a variety of dis- 

 eases, some peculiar, but the far greater part hearing a strong analogy 

 with those which afflict human nature ; hence the veterinary is, or ought 

 to be, considered as a branch of general medicine, the necessary allow- 

 ances being made in the case of the Horse, for the bulk, substance, and 

 constitutional power of the animal. The exceptions to this rule have 

 been found few and inconsequential. The diseases of Horse s originate 

 either in severity of labour, neglect, and exposure to the vicissitudes of 

 the weather, or in luxury and the defect of regular exercise and evacua- 

 tions. A certain degree of warmth and even clothing, seem conge- 

 nial with the nature of the Horse, whilst in use ; when left abroad, an 

 exposure which he can well bear, and with advantage in this climate, 

 if not too far advanced in years, the land on which he is placed ought 

 to be dry, with shelter for his occasional recourse. The first care of the 

 proprietor of a Horse ought to be the prevention of disease ; the next, 

 an early and effectual a})plication of the remedy. 



Horses, 



