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giving warning of approaching dissolution. But, 

 whatever be the previous state of the animal's 

 bodily health, he can rarely stand the mistreatment 

 he receives from his driver — whether post-boy or 

 coachman ; vis. that of being driven through pondfc 

 and large rivulets, while he is yet perspiring greatly 

 through fatigue and the heat of the weather. Almost 

 every posting town offers some such ready watering 

 place, and few drivers can resist the pleasure of thus 

 abridging the labour which the heels of his horses 

 and the wheels of his coach require at his hands. 

 Long rests in currents of air, or unsaddling horses 

 under similar circumstances, are alike productive 

 of inflammation of those or some other part of the 

 animal's inside, if it do not bring on fever of the 

 whole system — as before observed, page 172. The 

 kidneys or the liver are sometimes alone affected by 

 this species of culpable neglect ; but in either case, 

 as the effects are not immediately perceptible, the 

 disorder creeps upward unheeded, or seizes the 

 animal violently, so that it dies at the next going 

 out, of Apoplexy. 



Neglect of the necessary evacuations, or the dis- 

 continuance of those which have been customary, 

 even though injudicious, will occasion an accumu- 

 lation of dung in the great guts when they are 

 least capable of bearing it; upon this, pressing the 

 horse in his work will bring on inflammation, as it 

 will sometimes after a heavy feed and water, which 

 some injudiciously give on account of a hard day's 

 work lying before him. The same happens to 



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