i82 THE CONDITION OF HUNTERS 



exercise as at this season of the year can be given them 

 — can get rid of, something will soon grow wrong. 

 Here, then, it is that those useful auxiliaries, alterative 

 medicines, are so essential. 



Horses that have been well kept in the summer will 

 sometimes have their bodies covered with lumps, or 

 " bumps," as they are called, having somewhat the 

 resemblance of the effect of a sting from a wasp or a 

 bee ; but nothing alarming is to be apprehended from 

 them. On the contrary, they indicate increasing 

 vigour : and a mild course of diaphoretic and diuretic 

 alteratives, assisted by not less than three or four 

 hours' gentle exercise every day, will, in good time, 

 remove them. 



How provident soever nature may have been in 

 the formation of the animal in question, the goodness 

 of his wind, after going a certain distance at a rapid 

 rate, will chiefly depend on the work he has been 

 doing. Thus it is with a human being. The divers 

 after pearls in the Gulf of Persia, who remain under 

 water for such a length of time, are obliged to keep 

 themselves in the almost constant practice of diving, 

 or they would be unable to perform their task. There 

 are numerous organs, appendices to the lungs, em- 

 ployed in the act of breathing ; and all of them being 

 either muscular or elastic, require to be kept in tone 

 to preserve their power and elasticity. 



I have said before, that the muscles and fibres of all 

 animals relax with rest. Wishing to avoid asserting 

 anything on subjects of this nature but what I have 

 proved by the safest of all tests — experience — I must 



