ON DRAFT CATTLE. 20,1 



would, I am confident, if well attended to, 

 occafion a confiderable annual faving, in the 

 prevention of mifchiefs. 



Thefe horfes are not only too often very 

 badly fired, but are worked much too foon 

 after the operation; the confequence is, they 

 reap only a flight benefit, or are even perhaps 

 injured by it. But there is nothing from 

 which they fuffer more, or from which it is 

 fairer to date the origin of their numerous ail- 

 ments, than from their conftant fudden tranfi- 

 tions from heat to cold, from obftrucled and 

 repelled perfpiration. Much of this is an una- 

 voidable concomitant of their bufinefs ; how- 

 ever, it behoves the mafter to give the ftri&efl 

 charge that his horfes fuffer no more of this 

 than needs muff; that they are not loaded 

 with water while hot, or upon any confidera- 

 tion, or any excufe whatever, wafhed with 

 cold water when in a high ftate of perfpira- 

 tion. I know this is not only pra6lifed, and 

 with pretended fuccefs, but that I have in this 

 cafe two very celebrated medical authorities 

 againfl me. I mull of courfe fpeak farther on 

 this fubjeci in my Second Volume. 



By the little attention paid in general to the 

 weight of poftillions, one mufl conclude, that 

 it is held to be an obje6t of no confequence; 

 but for my own part, I am clearly convinced 

 of the contrary ; and could as eafiiy be pre- 



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