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similar quantity as during the week, cannot be 

 appropriated. The same waste of system is not 

 going on. The food is not required. It is, 

 however, taken into the stomach, and afterwards 

 goes to the blood, which becomes overcharged 

 with nutritious material, and as there is not time 

 to get rid of it by natural outlets the constant 

 occurrence by unnatural means is inevitable, 

 those means being a diseased state. 



Such horses, although coming to the stable 

 tired at the week end, would be certainly bene- 

 fited by a walk of three or four miles on Sunday 

 morning. The time occupied would admit of the 

 stables being thoroughly cleaned, the animals 

 would obtain fresh air instead of breathing 

 noisome odours during the operation, and in 

 many cases ward off the attacks mentioned, par- 

 ticularly if the precautions referred to under 

 " mashes " were carried out, as directed at pages 

 161 and 164. 



When horses come up from grass, straw-yards, 

 or rest on green food, &c., the amount of exercise 

 at commencement should be very limited, and 

 gradually increased until the full amount is taken. 

 Our further remarks in connexion with exercise 

 will lead us to a consideration of what is under- 

 stood by 



