CHAPTER VIL 



ON PHYSIC. 



The autumn and spring are the two seasons of the 

 year, in which most race-horses are to be physicked ; but, 

 what particular time in those seasons their physic 

 should be given them, must depend on how late dif- 

 ferent horses may be engaged for the autumn, or how 

 early their engagements may again take place in the 

 spring. 



It is not my intention to enter into a long detail 

 here, relative to the physicking of horses labouring 

 under the various diseases to which they are liable, as 

 this subject has been already very ably treated by the 

 different authors who have published on the veterinary 

 art. I shall therefore confine myself to the accidents 

 and diseases which are likely to take place in the legs 

 of horses in training, and to point out the advantages 

 of administering physic to them on such occasions. 

 To this I shall add a few precautionary remarks, and 

 point out how they are again to be brought into work. 



