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flakes of mucus mixed with the dung, indicating irritation 

 of the intestines ; sour smell from the mouth ; the practices 

 of grinding the teeth and licking whitewashed walls, etc., 

 which show acidity of the stomach ; dark-coloured urine, 

 evincing that the animal is fed on food of a too highly 

 nitrogenous nature; yellowness of the gums and lining 

 membrane of the eyelids, pointing to derangement of 

 the liver ; a disordered state of the skin ; abnormal 

 appetite, etc. 



Sweating. — The result of my own observations — 

 through a long experience in several branches of training 

 — on drawing either man or horse "fine," is that it is 

 entirely a question of the state of the nerves of the 

 individual trained ; for, as Stonehenge justly remarks, 

 " the nervous system cannot respond to the calls of its 

 great centre without having a due supply of fatty matter." 

 Horses, like men, vary, one with another, in regard to 

 the amount of fat which their systems can lose without 

 their becoming "stale." Most men who have trained 

 hard for pedestrianism, rowing, race running, etc., will 

 practically understand the meaning of staleness, the causes 

 of which, we may safely infer, are the same both in men 

 and horses. When a man gets much below his ordinary 

 healthy weight, whether by excessive exercise, physic, 

 sweating, or Banting, and continues hard work, he will, as 

 a rule, soon become nervous and shaky; a state which 

 can be cured only by rest, and by discontinuing the means 

 taken to get thin; and, then, as his weight rises, his 

 nerves will regain their tone. 



I do not, for a moment, mean to say that the disturb- 

 ance of the equilibrium of the system, due to an abnormal 



