50 THE HORSE AND ITS DISEASES. 



influence of strange mismanagement) haltered for days 

 together without remission. In the stable you perceive 

 him dejected, spiritless, and almost inanimate, without 

 the least seeming courage or activity, but when brought 

 into action, he instantly assumes another appearance. 



The advantages arising from an unremitting perseve- 

 rance in the regularity of daily exercise (both in respect 

 to time and continuance) cannot be clearly known, and 

 perfectly understood, but to those who have attended 

 minutely to the good effects of its practice, or ills that 

 become constantly perceptible from its omission. This 

 is undoubtedly the more extraordinary, when it is 

 recollected there is no one part of the animal economy 

 more admirably adapted to the plainest comprehension, 

 than the system of repletion or evacuation, which may 

 (avoiding technical description and professional minutise) 

 be concisely explained and clearly understood, as matter 

 necessarily introductory to what we proceed to inculcate^ 

 upon the palpable consistency of constant and moderate 

 exercise, for the establishment of health and promotion 

 of condition. 



It is very necessary we should take a survey of a 

 horse brought from the stable in a state of plenitude, 

 after temporary inactivity, when we find the body too 

 full and over-loaded, to make his first eiforts with any 

 degi'ce of ease or pleasure ; every one not totally absorbed 

 in a state of stupefaction, or natural illiteracy, must 

 have observed the unremitting attempts and strainings 

 of the animal to throw off the superfluous burden, by 

 repeated evacuations so soon as brought into action. If 

 at all hurried before the carcass, is in some degree 

 relieved from its accumulated contents, you perceive a 

 weezing or difliculty of respiration, occasioned by the 

 pressure of the stomach thus loaded, upon the lobes of 

 the lungs, restraining them in their natural elasticity for 

 the purposes of expansion and contraction. 



In this style also, if his pace is extended beyond a 

 walk, you find him break into a more violent perspiration 



