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from a severe attack of the disease, great good will not 

 be done with him much before the autumn. When a 

 horse has reco\'ered from the disease, the manner of his 

 feeduig, together with his general appearance as to 

 freshness, are the criterions by which the groom must 

 be guided in gradually bringing the horse again into 

 work, so as to have him in his usual or proper form. 



I have here laid down such a course of treatment as 

 I would ad\ ise a training groom to follow, in the case 

 of a horse affected with the distemper, and to an extent 

 which I think is as far as a man of his experience can 

 safely be trusted. If a groom finds, in the course of 

 his treatment, that unfavourable symptoms are ap- 

 proaching, as that of a horse's respiration becoming 

 increased, his ears and extremities being cold, and his 

 pulse much quickened (which latter, by the bye, a 

 groom should endeavour to make himself acquainted 

 with), it is the lungs, in all probability, which are 

 becoming affected. Under such unfavourable appear- 

 ances, a groom should lose no time in calling in the 

 aid of an experienced veterinary surgeon. 



