HUNTERS 



respiration, such as heaving of the flanks, 

 dilated nostrils, sweating, coldness of the body, 

 rapid breathing, a small oppressed pulse, and 

 other signs indicative of impending dissolution. 

 Prevention, being better than cure, cannot be 

 too strongly insisted upon, and if a hunter has 

 been properly conditioned, it will not suffer 

 from the trouble now under consideration. 



Hunters, like other horses, suffer from various 

 lung affections, such as pleurisy, pneumonia, 

 &c., but as the present work is more immediately 

 concerned with the hunter in health, it is in- 

 expedient to enter into a discussion concerning 

 the same. 



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