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this respect myself, when I was a groom. But since I 

 have practised as a veterinary surgeon, I have 

 })hysicked horses in various ways, and under such a 

 variety of circumstances, that I am quite confident 

 there is no danger to be apprehended from either wash- 

 ing their feet, or stripping them to be dressed. In the 

 stables they are to be kept comfortably clothed, with 

 blankets next their skin. The top clothing, which is 

 put on them in physic, and also for them to sleep in, 

 should be the old ones, which are fit for no other pur- 

 pose. After their feet are washed, and before the 

 boys strip them, such of them as may not have purged 

 briskly, or drank freely before they went out, may be 

 tried again now they are in, with a little warm water, 

 and then let the whole of them be dressed, and their 

 legs be well rubbed ; and after the stables are set fair, 

 give them their mashes and hay, strip their quarters, 

 shut them up, and let the boys get their breakfasts. 

 The groom, on coming into the stables at noon time, 

 is to make his observations on such of the horses as 

 may have purged repeatedly in the stables. Such of 

 them as may have been affected in this way, should 

 remain in until four o'clock in the afternoon ; and 

 those which may not have purged much in the stables, 

 should be watered and sent out to exercise, with a 

 view to get the medicine to act sufficiently. When 

 they come in at twelve or one o'clock, they are to be 

 treated as in the morning : and those which may have 

 to stop in at this noon period, should be watered, 

 their quarters cleaned, wisped over, clothed up, their 



