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than colic alone, the number of cases which 

 occur where boiled food is used exceed those 

 where attention is paid to the selection and 

 supply of proper diet by ninety per cent. 



Cooked food is open to grave objections. It 

 weakens the digestive organs. It is swallowed 

 rapidly, and the stomach becomes greatly dis- 

 tended, by which secretions are prevented or 

 altogether stopped. Little or no insalivation 

 takes place, and the food does not undergo those 

 important and preliminary changes which have 

 already been insisted upon. Secretions, otherwise 

 necessary, are of no use with such an excess of 

 fluid food, and if poured out are too far diluted. 

 The stomach acquires in time an immense 

 capacity and the muscular powers are weakened. 

 The liver becomes diseased and the natural 

 secretions very limited or absent. The intestines 

 now suffer from this combination of results, and 

 colic becomes of periodical occurrence, eventually 

 ending in death. 



The horses of many firms with which I am 

 acquainted in Scotland, to whom boiled food is 

 given, suffer very frequently from colic, and 

 deaths are common. 



Where proper systems are carried out, I have 

 known three hundred animals belonging to one 

 firm, doing the hardest work, kept in the best of 

 health, and for a whole year not a single case 

 occurs. 



Mr. Hunting states that 120 pit animals under 



