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ply a pathological condition — a sort of 

 colliquative sweat. When in winter coat 

 it causes so mucli inconvenience that it 

 has induced a practice, now quite general, 

 of clipping or singeing — removing the 

 winter coat entirely, — and this seems to 

 be necessary, and even advantageous, un- 

 der these circumstances. 



But this whole trouble, this inordinate 

 sweating, this ''leaky skin," is produced 

 by the poisonous action of the unconsumed 

 tissue w^aste, caused by the deprivation of 

 oxygen, acting probably through the vaso- 

 motor nerves, deranging the delicate ad- 

 justments so essential to health. 



I wish here to call attention to a fact 

 which is a matter of common observation. 



It has often been noticed that horses 



