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Section II. 



ON THE SKIN AND ITS DISEASES. 



SCAELET FETEE. 

 CHAPPED HEELS. 

 SUEPEIT. 



BrLBOrS PErEIGO. 

 SOEENESS OP THE SZIN. 

 EINGWOEM. 



MAXGE. 



GEEASE. 



ITCHING OP THE EXTEEMITIES. 



WAEBLES. 



ANGLEBEEEIES. 



HAIE CYSTS. 



PEELIMINARY REMAEKS. 



The uses of the skin are numerous. It is the outward 

 vesture of every tissue, the aggregate of which constitutes the 

 organism of the horse. 



It is the matrix of the hair, a growth which adds beauty 

 to the animal, and forms an important defence to the dehcate 

 structures of the skin, and also to other and more deeply 

 situated organs of the body, not only from the varying 

 temperature of climate, but also from the operation of in- 

 numerable agents of an external character, which tend more 

 or less to disturb the economy of the system. 



It is also an extensively secreting organ ; of this the reader 

 may judge when I inform him upon the authority of our most 

 eminent physiologists, that the quantity of invisible perspira- 

 tion which daily arises from its extensive surface is equal in 



