28 TREATMENT 



frequently contracting plethora and inflammation of 

 the bladder. I mean the autumn, when the foal has 

 been weaned and the udder has not ceased secreting 

 milk. At this period a poor pasture with plenty of 

 clean water at hand, should be chosen. Some breeders 

 are particularly favoured by having within their boun- 

 daries some moor land, which is particularly useful for 

 all breeding animals at this season of the year. 



It may be objected, and often is, that there can be 

 no necessity for exposing the mare to cold and low 

 diet, and that it is merely a false economy ; but to any 

 one really conversant with the generative system, such 

 arguments will appear utterly opposed to reason. 



A mare cannot be kept too cool either internally or 

 externally. Anything that tends to increase excite- 

 ment of the general system must in like ratio tend to 

 lessen the chance of generation. Still it must not be 

 understood that keeping a mare cool is half-starving 

 her and exposing her to every inclement season without 

 shelter ; for this would be equally prejudicial, by causing 

 great debility, which would most likely terminate in 

 death both of the mare and her offspring, or, at least, 

 render the constitution of both feeble for life : or, what 

 is more common, the mare might contract a chill on the 

 kidneys, producing violent inflammation of this and 

 contiguous organs, the result of which would be equally 

 fatal. Therefore, though the food should be of a 

 cooling description, it should, at the same time, be 

 good and nourishing ; it should sustain the system, and 

 keep up animal heat without creating anything like 



