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to be got rid of, with the exception of, in some 

 cases, the water on the Avails. [This sometimes 

 arises in stables near the sea coast from the mortar 

 having been made with sea sand, instead of the 

 proper dry material. Such walls will universally 

 give in damp weather, or indeed w^hen warmed 

 by the heat of the horses.] 



In almost all other cases, dampness in stables 

 arises either from ground damp or want of ventila- 

 tion. Of this any man may judge from different 

 circumstances, and, generally speaking, the remedy 

 need not be attended with any very serious ex- 

 pense : drainage and raising the floor will mostly 

 have the effect in one instance, and making proper 

 vents for the heated vapour to escape near the 

 roof will also nearly always be sufficient in the 

 other. 



Where a stable has the defect described, it 

 should be remedied at once, or the horses taken 

 out of it ; for if they are not, sickness will sooner 

 or later cause double the expense of the remedy. 

 A lady may be very comfortable who, during 

 six months in the year, never stirs from her own 

 heated apartments, unless to get into her carriage, 

 where a chaufferette keeps that to the same tem- 

 perature, while it conveys her to the still more 

 heated atmosphere of a rout. She is comfortable, 

 and for a time fancies herself in unimpaired health; 

 but the habitual lassitude, the physician's carriage 



