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CHAPTER III. 



A COLD. 



*' It is not what people read that makes them learned, but 

 what they remember." 



Young horses are most liable to take cold, although 

 old ones are not exempt, and people are apt to look upon 

 it wiih indifference; but there are few diseases incident 

 to the horse, which do not more or less derive their 

 origin from a cold. The causes are various, but the most 

 common ones are that of driving them until they are 

 warm and sweaty, and then allowing them to stand still 

 where they are exposed to the cold air and wind. If 

 they do not take a severe cold which settles on the lungs, 

 it not unfrequently produces what is worse (in the hands 

 of some), viz: founder. Removing them from hot 

 stables to cold ones, often causes them to take cold, and 

 if they have been high fed and clothed warm, the cold 

 contracted in this way often proves very violent. This 

 is the reason why horses so often catch a severe cold on 

 their fiist coming out of the dealer's hands, or changing 

 masters; they neglect to rub him until he is dry, or 

 nearly so, before putting on his blanket, as they should, 

 after driving him until he is warm and sweaty. 



Symptoms. — When a horse has taken cold, he will be 

 heavy and dull in proportion to the severity of the dis- 

 ease; his eyes will be watery, and after a day or two he 

 will run at the nose (a thin mucous gleet) if the cold be 



