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moistened, in proportion to the violence 

 of the exercise and the state of the weather ; 

 and the evaporation of this perspiration 

 cools down the body and keeps it at the 

 normal temperature, and no harm to the 

 animal results. 



But if the horse has been deprived of 

 his full allowance of air by a period of 

 close stabling, and his blood is only par- 

 tially oxydized when this fresh rush of 

 tissue waste is poured into the blood, the 

 lungs become congested because they are 

 behind their work and cannot dispose of 

 the extra load put upon them, and it is not 

 an uncommon occurrence for such horses 

 to die from this lung congestion in a 

 short time, or from a resultant pneumonia, 

 and if they recover at all, they are a long 



