CHAPTER Vin. 



ON PHYSIC. 



In the last chapter I treated on the physicking of 

 race-horses not in training ; or rather, of those which, 

 from various causes, may have been put out of training 

 for a short time. In this, I propose to show how 

 some of them are to be physicked, and for what pur- 

 poses, when they are in regular training. But before 

 I enter fully on this subject, it may be proper, in order 

 to prevent errors, to make some few observations on 

 the effects of aloes on the constitution of the race-horse, 

 under certain circumstances. When I first wept to live 

 as a boy in the stables, I lemember great mistakes to 

 have been made by grooms, both in the internal and 

 external applications of medicines ; and I confess that 

 when I became a groom myself, I fell into similar 

 errors. Nor was it much to be wondered at, for 

 grooms, generally speaking, were very little acquainted 

 with the properties of medicine, not even of the few 

 they made use of for the horses under their care. They 



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