CHAPTEE X. 



COLTS IN THE FIRST STAGE OF PREPARATION ROUTINE OF 

 WALKING, FEEDING &C. 



PRECEPTOR. We will now proceed to the stable, and see 

 the horses take their evening walk. It has always been a 

 pleasant scene for me to observe them performing this 

 very necessary exercise. How gaily the young things 

 move along ! Their joints and tendons are as pliant as 

 those of a deer; yet a few years of usage will make them 

 lounge in their movement as well as the veterans. 



Have one of the boys lead out Clipper, to pick the grass 

 and gnaw the ground, which will assist the aperient me- 

 dicine we are giving. It would have been well during the 

 winter to have applied a light blister to fine down the 

 extra tissue that has been formed so long. As it would 

 be too great an inroad on the time now allotted to bring 

 him in condition, we will have to adopt a plan that may 

 answer, but not with the certainty of a vesicant. To the al- 

 terative medicine we will add daily doses of iodine in small 

 amounts, say five grains, which will act as a glandular 

 excitant, and aid the local treatment, consisting of poul- 

 ticing with hot water, and applying dry bandages over 

 the wet sponges, gradually drawing them tighter to assist 

 the absorbent vessels in taking up the extraneous morbid 

 matter, and removing it from the system. 



Blistering, a remedial agent of vast power, has fallen 

 into disrepute from the empiricism of those who have ap- 

 plied it, right or wrong. The legs of this horse would 



