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feel, unti] within a few days of the race for which he is 

 being trained. This is, of course, supposing that he is 

 one of the sort that will stand being "drawn fine." 



Artificial Sweating. By this term I mean any 

 process of sweating which is accomplished without 

 the aid of exercise, such as that by the Turkish bath, 

 or by clothing the horse very heavily in a warm, 

 closed-up stable, &c. Such sweating, I think, is most 

 objectionable, unless, indeed, the state of the animal's 

 limbs precludes exertion. When perspiration is thus 

 artificially induced, the increased excretory action is 

 confined to the pores of the skin, so that the blood 

 rapidly becomes charged with effete matter which the 

 lungs fail to eliminate with due promptness ; as the 

 respiration is not accelerated by exertion. Hence, the 

 lungs become gorged with insufficiently aerated blood, 

 which causes the breathing to become laboured, and 

 the action of the heart tumultuous. These abnormal 

 conditions cause general distress, and tend to injure 

 the healthy working of the heart ; results that speedily 

 if oft repeated upset the nervous system, and 

 render the animal stale and incapable of prolonged 

 and vigorous exertion. 



Physic. Before commencing training, it is generally 

 advisable to give a moderate dose of physic, in order to 

 eliminate from the system an excess of the products 

 resulting from the waste of tissue, which are not 

 excreted with sufficient rapidity for the requirements 

 of hard exercise, and to get rid of the superabundant 

 nutritive material absorbed from the chyle. The diseases 

 known as azoturia and lymphangitis are respectively 

 brought on when these two conditions exist to a highly 



