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to die, and sent home numbers of them 

 roarers for life — for this is the great cause of 

 non-hereditary roaring — is caused by nothing 

 but this germ, which Hves in the dirt of 

 stables, gets from there into the nostrils and 

 backs of the throats of our horses, and then 

 when they are lowered by the cold and 

 wet sets up this disease, which the horse's 

 strength might have been sufficient to fight 

 down had he been left all the time in his 

 warm — perhaps too warm — stable, although 

 they all would probably have developed the 

 disease when the changeable and depressing 

 weather of autumn set in. But my point 

 is that, if these microbes were not allowed 

 to get into the horse's nostril he could not 

 possibly get the disease ; and I go further, I 

 pledge my reputation on these matters, that 

 any man who takes the following simple 

 precautions will not have a sick horse in the 

 forthcoming training, and if anyone finds his 

 horse sick, and thinks he has carried out my 

 directions, I hope that he will speak to me 

 about it, and for our mutual information 



