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of the eyelids, pointing to derangement of the liver ; 

 a disordered state of the skin ; abnormal appetite, &c. 



Sweating. The result of my own observations 

 through a long experience in several branches of train- 

 ing on drawing either man or horse " fine," is that it 

 is entirely a question of the state of the nerves of ihe 

 individual trained; as Stonehenge justly remarks, "the 

 nervous system cannot respond to the calls of its 

 great centre without having a due supply of fatty 

 matter." Horses, like men, vary, one with another, 

 in regard to the amount of fat which their systems 

 can lose without their becoming " stale." Most men 

 who have trained hard for pedestrianism, rowing, race 

 riding, &c., will practically understand the meaning of 

 staleness; while we may safely infer that its causes are the 

 same both in men and horses. When a man gets much 

 below his ordinary healthy weight, whether by excessive 

 exercise, physic, sweating, or Banting, and continues hard 

 work, he will, as a rule, soon become nervous and shaky; 

 a state which caa be cured only by rest, and by 

 discontinuing the means taken to get thin ; and then 

 as his weight rises, so will his nerves regain their tone. 



I do not, for a moment, mean to say that the disturb- 

 ance of the equilibrium of the system, due to an abnor- 

 mal loss of fat, is the sole cause of a horse becoming 

 stale, for I know well that the effects of over- work 

 and the feverishness induced by excitement and high 

 feeding, also tend to bring about that condition. But 

 I wish, simply, to impress on my readers the fact that 

 a certain amount of fat, in the body of the horse, is 

 indispensable to the continued healthy action of his 



