SWEATING. 157 



The usual symptoms of derangement, caused by errors 

 in diet, are feverishness, with quickened pulse, and hot, 

 dry skin ; looseness or constipation of the bowels ; the 

 presence of flakes of mucus mixed with the dung, 

 indicating irritation of the intestines ; sour smell from 

 the mouth ; the practices of grinding the teeth and 

 licking whitewashed walls, &c., which show acidity of 

 the stomach ; dark-coloured urine, evincing that the 

 . animal is fed on food of a too highly nitrogenous 

 nature ; yellowness of the gums and lining membrane 

 of the eyelids, pointing to derangement of the 

 liver ; a disordered state of the skin ; abnormal 

 appetite, &c. 



Sweating. The result of my own observations 

 through a long experience in several branches of train- 

 ing on drawing either man or horse " fine," is that it 

 is entirely a question of the state of the nerves of the 

 individual trained ; for, as Stonehenge justly remarks, 

 "the nervous system cannot respond to the calls of 

 its great centre without having a due supply of fatty 

 matter." Horses, like men, vary, one with another, 

 in regard to the amount of fat which their systems can 

 lose without their becoming " stale." Most men who 

 have trained hard for pedestrianism, rowing, race 

 running, &c., will practically understand the meaning 

 of staleness, the causes of which, we may safely infer, 

 are the same both in men and horses. When a man 

 gets much below his ordinary healthy weight, whether 

 by excessive exercise, physic, sweating, or Banting, and 

 continues hard work, he will, as a rule, soon become 

 nervous and shaky ; a state which can be cured only 

 by rest, and by discontinuing the means taken to get 



