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CHAPTER VII. 



SWEATING SCRAPES, THEIR EFFECT AND REASONS FOR. 



I have promised to give you a chapter on sweating, and 

 I will quote from that eminent authority on the subject, 

 Joseph Carn Simpson : 



The natural outlets of the body are the skin, bowels 

 and kidneys. With their aid we get rid of what the old 

 trainers called the waste and spare. We can increase 

 the action of them all by articles given as food or medi- 

 cine. The evacuations through the numerous pores of 

 the skin are what we call sweating, the effects of which — 

 when properly used — being to bring a horse into such a 

 state, called condition, that he can do without injury, 

 what would be an impossibility for him to perform with- 

 out its aid. 1 have signified my objections to stimulating 

 the bowels and kidneys by cathartics and diuretics as 

 aids of training, and I must necessarily show that condi- 

 tion can be acquired without their help. Sweating has 

 two distinct things to perform : the first, to give freedom 

 to the respiratory organs and the action of the heart, which 

 we may call internal relief; the second, to promote the 

 strength and activity of the muscles and lighten the load 

 to be carried, which, with the same propriety, may be 

 term.ed external relief. The organs of respiration are the 

 lungs, bronchial tubes, trachea or wind-pipe, glottis or 

 valve, at the extremity of the trachea, nasal passages 

 and nostrils. It requires study to understand the work- 

 ings of the organs of circulation and breathing, and 

 I must confess that I am not capable of understanding 

 any of the treatises that I have read on the subject suffi- 

 ciently to explain them, or to make them as intelligible to 

 you as they are to mc, though the dediiciiofis drawn from 



