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can, but a proper quantity in a given time in 

 accordance with their work they must be able to 

 eat, or they are useless. 



I had a very brilliant and most speedy horse, 

 who was very short in his back ribs. I drew a 

 hundred and ten and took him, for a young 

 horse I had purchased at eighty, or I would not 

 have had him; he was like a half-starved grey- 

 hound when I got him, would scarce eat enough 

 to support a goat, and was constantly scouring. 

 I stopped this very shortly ; and without pre- 

 suming to prescribe for others, I accomplished 

 it by dosing him pretty largely with Ext. Hsema- 

 toxila), and the usual spices given to horses, for a 

 few days, and then polished him off with Catechu, 

 spice, and good home-brewed ale. It stopped the 

 habitual scouring. He came to his appetite, and 

 when I sold him, was in as fine condition as a 

 race-horse ; in short, in stable phrase, " fit to go 

 for a man's life : " but it is necessary to say, I 

 never called on him for hounds more than once 

 in ten days, and he had only eleven stone on 

 him, no unimportant feature in the success of my 

 practice, as my own vet. in his case. 



That under particular circumstances I took 

 to such an animal has nothing to do with my 

 appreciation thereof : if one is shown to my 

 reader I as strongly recommend him to reject 

 him at once, as I should guard him against re- 



