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pressure on the lungs, from the greatly increased 

 action of the heart and arteries, yet a stimulus 

 is afterwards wanting to assist almost expiring 

 nature. 



Permit me to lay great stress on the propriety of 

 putting a horse, which may be thus unfortunately 

 situated, in a place where he has free access to air, 

 for a hot stable is destructive to him. When one of 

 Lord Derby's huntsmen's horses came home last 

 season in a very exhausted state, after a very tiring 

 run with a second deer, this error was committed : 

 he was put into his usual stall, and the usual warmth 

 of the stable was increased by the presence of almost 

 every servant in the house, who came from motives 

 of humanity to inquire after the fate of a favourite 

 old horse. Had he been well littered down under an 

 open shed, he would have had some chance for his 

 life ; whereas, in the situation in which he was placed, 

 he had but little, and he died the next day. 



I remember witnessing a very strongly marked 

 instance of the dangerous effects of placing horses 

 in warm stables before the circulation of the blood 

 is restored to its proper standard. We had killed a 

 fox with Lord Middleton's hounds in Warwickshire, 

 close to the house of a gentleman who was out, and 

 who asked several of us to take some refreshment. 

 Cantering forward to order it, he thoughtlessly put 

 the mare he had been riding into her stall among four 

 other horses, and proceeded to the house. We had 

 scarcely sat down to our luncheon, when he called 

 me out of the room to inform me his mare was iU. 



