70 FOREGOING MODES. 



Horses of an excitable nature, or bad feeders, or of a 

 delicate constitution, together with accidents, diseases, and 

 other matters which may be denominated of an untoward 

 character, are to be encountered; and to combat which with 

 success, requires great experience and perseverance on the part 

 of the groom, or indeed of any one having the care of such 

 animals. 



EATIOIiTALE OE THE POEEGOING MoDES. — The modcS of 



treatment whereby condition in the hunter is obtained, are 

 submitted in a form which I trust will be plain and intelligible 

 to the reader. A slight glimpse, however, into the why and the 

 wherefore of a portion at least of the processes detailed, is what 

 every one interested in these matters will naturally desire. 



Our remarks mil in the main, be limited to the practices of 

 washing, clothing, and lightly feeding the hunter ; proofs of the 

 soundness of which, are deducible from the laws governing 

 the functions of the organism, the study of which, is a never- 

 failing source of pleasure and instruction to those who may be 

 interested in a knowledge of their operation. 



After the exertions of the chase— supposing the runs to 

 have been severe, and long-continued — the hunter, as a natural 

 consequence, will experience a state of general exhaustion. 

 The vital power, so to speak, vdll be gone ; and the aim of those 

 directly interested in the welfare of the animal, should be 

 directed to place him as speedily as possible in that state, which 

 science in combination with experience, may devise as being 

 the most favourable to his recovery. 



The principal sources of the \ital power, are the great nervous 

 centres ; and, these from the operation of tne circumstances 

 supposed, are in a state of complete exhaustion, the direct 

 consequence of which is, depression of the powers and functions 

 of those organs, whose vital or functional activity is subordinate 



