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and quinine at frequent intervals, or this treatment 

 may begin at the first indication of the disease. 



Soft and easily digested food should be the rule 

 for some weeks after recovery ; for a latent weak- 

 ness, a sort of low fever, remains, and any over- 

 exertion may cause a relapse. Exercise must gradu- 

 ally increase. 



Of course few or none of these occurrences may 

 result. The horse may escape with a trifling dulness 

 for a few days that will hardly be noticeable, and 

 not even affect his ability for light labour. If this 

 fresh, or " green," horse had been put directly to 

 gentle steady work whereby he got regularly into 

 the open air, if he had been neither overheated nor 

 allowed to chill when warm, if kidneys and bowels 

 were kept active that feverish tendencies might be 

 corrected, if in short he were used like any other 

 horse, only not quite so hard, he would have had 

 little trouble, as proved by the thousands of express, 

 car, and cab horses, which are always put at once to 

 work, and. keeping on, are rarely sick. 



Remember that your country horse will probably 



