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to the attack of many dileafes; and we really find 

 that the higher this artificial fyftem is carried, fo 

 much the more are the horfes who are the fubjecls of 

 it obnoxious to difeafe. As, therefore, our comforts 

 and convenience have made a life of art necefikry to 

 thcfe animals, and thereby rendered them liable to 

 difeafe, fo (hould our endeavours be turned towards 

 the prevention of thofe maladies, which a little atten- 

 tion will, in moft cafes, in a great meafure effe6t. 



A liable (liould be airy: in nothing are the horfe- 

 men of this country more erroneous. However con- 

 genial warmth may be to the conftitutions of horfes, 

 particularly of the blood kind, as being originally 

 natives of a warm climate, it is felf-evident that 

 breathing and re-breathing the iiime air, as muft be 

 the cafe in all clofe ftables, muft be pernicious; and 

 as being completely removed from what in a ftate of 

 nature they muft enjoy, it muft be highly productive 

 of difeafe. The very great difference of the tempe- 

 rature without doors, and that within, fubjeAs horfes 

 kept fo warm to that vaft chain of difeafes arifing 

 from what is termed catching cold. A ftable fliould 

 be only moderately warm, and it Ihould be always 

 ventilated ; the ventilation (hould likewife be as near 

 the top as poffible, for the foul air is always upper- 

 moft. A ftable fliould likewife be very light; when 

 it is otherwife, the new received light the horfe gains 

 when he goes out, is a painful ftimulus to the eyes, 

 and his imperfect vifion makes him ftart ; and, how- 



