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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



rnatory nature. How can cold produce it':' 

 or what is innammation ? luflammaticu is a 

 determinaUon of blood into the small vessels 

 from an increased action of the larger trunks ; 

 and the equilibrium being lost, the small ones 

 suffer congestion. But has cold any tendency 

 to produce this action? on the contrary, it is a 

 direct sedative, which all experience, when 

 subjected to a great degree of cold ; in such 

 cases, sleep is often the cause of death. 



Catarrh, then, being proved to be an inflam- 

 mation, originating in congestion, cold cannot 

 possibly produce this, but the direct contrary. 

 This may be proved by bringing a fiozen 

 animal to the fire, by which means you excite 

 inllarnmation, and destroy him ; but if you 

 rub him with snow, he revives, because tho 

 snow, with friction, is warmer than the body, 

 and becomes a sufficient degrree of heat. But 

 tlie idea that cold produces catarrh, arises from 

 its existing most in cold weather; but what 

 the cold does, is this ; it renders the parts 

 more susceptible of heat. Persons may ask 

 why are the cartilages of the windpipe more 

 particularly affected? they have been made 

 thus sensible as a kind of safeguard to the 

 'uugs, and when we consider that in bringing 

 Horses into stables, it is from cold to heat, and 

 from a puiv to an impure atmosphere ; this 

 l>eing more than a simple change. The (jues- 

 tion now arises how are we to prevent it ? I 

 must acknowledge that all animals fatten 

 wxtner in a warm temperature than the 

 reverse, but then the change must be gradual ; • 

 being mindful that the air all this time should 

 be pure, for the diseases of Horses may almost 

 all be referred to ignorance and neglect ; and 

 in liie same manner, this will apply to all the 

 creation. 



A« it is neces.saiy to have Horses stabledj 



for our many frequent uses (we will speak of 

 the construction of a stable in the course of 

 our work). As pure air has so mach to do 

 with the prevention of catarrh, we will speak 

 of the improper plan of Horses standing on 

 diity litter during the day ; for the animal 

 poison of which produces more or less effect 

 upon all animals, according to their habits 

 We, ourselves, are born in an impure atmos- 

 pheric air, and brought up in it ; but use with 

 us is second nature. A Horse comes into the 

 world into a puie atmosphere, never breath- 

 ing the same air twice ; tlierefore the opposite 

 must take greater effect on Horses than our- 

 selves ; and thus we seldom see them ill, 

 until they are brought into stables ; the Horse 

 becoming sick, the owner is surprised, and the 

 greater surprise is, the animal should live. 

 Now, I am no advocate foi cold stables, 

 neither do I 1 ke them heated by dung and 

 urine. 



Horses generally become diseased during 

 the night, the impure air then collecting ; f(>r, 

 during the day there is a partial ventilation. 

 Most persons on visiting a stable the first 

 thing in the morning, are well aware of the 

 effect o£ the air on the eyes 



Common catarrh often proceeds to taicc 

 great hold of the constitution, the irritation 

 causing cough, and not unfrequently ends in 

 chronic cough, from the irritability of the 

 nerves, occasioned by the previous attack. If 

 the inflammation attacks the membrane lining 

 the nose, a discharge will be the consequence, 

 sometimes from one or both nostrils. Nature 

 endeavouring by this means to relieve herself. 

 This inflammation frequently, or almost al- 

 ways affects all Horses coming into large 

 towns. Horse-dealers are well aware of thi.s 

 and often try to preve t it, by turning tiu in 



