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MEDICINE. 



To require a dose of medicine is an UNSOUNDNESS; 

 therefore, as in the case last mentioned, until the effects 

 of the medicine are removed, the horse is UNSOUND. 



DIET AND EXERCISE. 



Requiring a particular treatment of either diet or ex- 

 ercise a treatment widely different from that which is 

 ordinarily adopted is a deviation from soundness. 



After studying the preceding part of this book, more 

 particularly the contents of the three last paragraphs, 

 the question may naturally arise "How is it possible 

 that dealers' horses pass at all; for, certainly in the case 

 of high-priced horses, attention must be paid to every 

 little nicety with a view towards securing sound animals? " 

 It is just this, that as the buyer compels the vendor to 

 keep his horses in a state so highly " finished," the buyer 

 must make allowances or he will never effect a purchase. 



If a horse is capable of undergoing the trial as well as 

 other horses in the same adipose state, being, in all other 

 respects, just as he should be according to the rules laid 

 down in this work, then he is SOUND. 



Nobody but the purchaser is to blame for a horse, 

 with no one perceptible defect, having around it as 

 it were an atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty; but 

 where he does not mean to put the horse immediately to 

 work, but intends to bring him to it properly by degrees, 

 the animal will not suffer. But if horses newly pur- 

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