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mon, and truly the moft proper caufes of ca- 

 tarrh are the following : New, iin-aired {tables, 

 change of ftable from warm to cold, doors or 

 windows fuddenly thrown open, continued io 

 at unfeafonable times, and currents of air impro- 

 perly admitted ; expofure to the night air; be- 

 ing fuffered to ftand ftill in the cold air imme- 

 diately from a hot ftable, or when in a ftate of 

 perfpiration ; the unnatural pra6lice of waftiing 

 horfes in fuch a ftate, with cold water, at any 

 feafon ; fudden turning out to grafs from warm 

 keeping ; damp body cloths, or faddle pads. 



It is to the intereft of every proprietor, how- 

 ever poor, to be provided with fome kind of 

 covering to throw over his horfe's loins, on any 

 fudden tranfition from heat to cold ; it muft 

 alfo be remembered, that a horfe which works 

 and runs at grafs (in cold feafons more particu- 

 larly) ought never to be curried, which renders 

 his body too fufceptible of imprefliori from the 

 air ; fuch ftiould only be rubbed with wifps. 

 Should a horfe take cold at grafs, it is infinitely 

 better to houfe him by night in a ftate of mo- 

 derate warmth, and allow a few maflies and 

 warm water, from which treatment he will 

 moft probably be ready to brave the weather 

 again, in a found and healthy ftate, in the courfe 

 of a few days, rather than fuffer him to languifti 

 amid the damps of the foil, with a running at 

 the nofe which may continue for months. The 



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