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violent; he will refuse his food and be troubled with dif- 

 ficult breathing, and a cough will ensue. When a horse 

 has a cold like this, his stomach becomes inactive, cold, 

 and is filled, as well as the intestines, with canker, 

 whereby the digestive powers are impaired, and he be- 

 comes languid and dull, in proportion to the severity of 

 the cold. Now the internal or vital heat is diminished, 

 the skin becomes dry and husky, and fever begins by 

 reason of the cold, for heat promotes life, and cold, 

 death. Remove the cause by increasing the internal 

 heat, until the stomach is clear of this canker, and you 

 cause a free perspiration. Then the natural heat of the 

 body is sufficient to do the rest, and nature will jog on 

 as before anything happened to your horse. The most 

 common practice in the case of colds, with a majority of 

 farriers, has been to bleed. Now this, in my opinion, is 

 very wrong. 



When farmers first turn out to pasture, as they gener- 

 ally do in the morning, their horses sometimes contract 

 colds by feeding through the day and lying down at 

 night, that bring on other diseases, that return with 

 them to the stable after grazing, some months. As a 

 preventive, I would recommend turning them in pasture 

 at evening, then they will feed throughout the night and 

 lie down to rest at day time, and not be so likely to take 

 cold on their first being turned out to pasture.* 



* After shedding the coat, or moulting, in the spring of the year, 

 as they do, and especially if they are poorly clothed with flesh, they 

 are but illy protected against the cold storms we often experience in 

 this northern latitude, and had better be sheltered a few nights, or 

 during these storms, than to run the risk of letting them run out. 



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