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be speedily relieved in any other manner. It would also be 

 evident that if a horse were in this situation, relief would 

 not follow his being kept in a quiescent state. That would 

 aggravate the difficulty, especially if the theory of the syn- 

 chronism of the pulse and step be correct. 



Should a vehicle, that is going at the rate of twenty 

 miles an hour, be brought to a full stop, its contents if 

 not fastened to it keeps up the same rate till the force 

 of gravitation arrests the momentum, by bringing the 

 body to the ground. In a like manner, arresting the ra- 

 pid motion of the blood would be attended with very 

 serious results. Any one can satisfy himself of the truth 

 of this assumption, by running rapidly till his accelerated 

 breathing occasions distress. He cannot sit down and 

 remain passive ; the suffering is unendurable in that po- 

 sition, and he is forced by his feelings to keep moving, till 

 the circulation and breathing are moderated by degrees. 

 A horse is pulled up after a heat ; the heaving flank, qui- 

 vering nostril and distended eyelids show distress, while 

 the surface is hardly moistened with perspiration. It 

 would be madness to stop the horse in this situation ; he 

 must be clothed not too heavily cantered or trotted 

 slowly, till the circulation and respiration are partially 

 restored and then blankets thrown on till a good scrape 

 is obtained. 



In remarking that the horse must not be clothed too 

 heavily, I want to have you understand that there is a 

 proper medium to be observed, so as to induce free per- 

 spiration. It is a mistaken notion that the more clothes 

 a horse is wrapped in, the more likely he will be to sweat. 

 I presume your western experience has made you familiar 

 with the "fever and ague," and if fortunate enough to 

 have escaped the scourge yourself you have witnessed 

 others overtaken with the "chills." The first stage is the 

 cold, shivering one; the second, the burning fever, in which 



