122 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



A man need not close his ears to the voice of prudence, 

 and,if seriously shaken, or disabled, should make decorous 

 submission to the chance of war, and not, in obstinate; 

 bravado, contend with Fate. If a collar-bone be broken, 

 which is one of the simplest and most common of frac^ 

 tures, the sooner you are in a surgeon's hands the better. 

 It will add nothing to your credit, and less to your 

 recovery, if you persevere to the end of a run which you 

 can no longer enjoy. If a shoulder be dislocated (another 

 occurrence by no means uncommon), it should be re- 

 duced, on the spot, by the help of any who are at hand. 

 The patient should be placed on one side of a pahng, or 

 gate, and by the strong pull of one man from the other, 

 it may be instantly replaced. If there be nothing nearer 

 to act as a lever, the body of the horse will answer the 

 purpose as well as the gate ; but, if time be allowed for 

 swelling to ensue^ the force of ten men will, perhaps, be 

 necessary for the operation. The system sustains a 

 very severe shock from a bad fall, and any affected 

 indifference to its effects is as absurd as the cowardice 

 which dreads the encounter. There is an idea that a 

 draught of vinegar is a specific, upon the principle of 

 creating a diversion from the head to the stomach, as no 



allude to his match against time, but to something far more to our purpose. 

 Both girths having broken in the beginning of a good run, rather than lose his 

 place, he threw the saddle from him, and rode, in his usual form, to the end, 

 upon the bai"e back. To any but a perfect centaur such a ride is not so feasible 

 as may be supposed by those who have not tried it. — " Experto crede." 



