FEKDING, EXERCISE, AND GROOMING. 27 i 



Durinor the first week of the horse's bein<>; 

 taken hito a stable, walking exercise is most 

 proper; but after this it may be gradual!}- in- 

 creased to a trot or canter ; and if the exercise 

 occasion any degree of perspiration, he should 

 be carefully cleaned, and otherwise attended 

 to, as soon as he gets into the stable. 



By thus gradually bringing a horse from a 

 state of nature, that is, from tlie open air and 

 green food, lo a comfortable stable and dry 

 grain, he will be in little danger of th(jse 

 troublesome diseases, which are often the con- 

 dangerous. The usual remcdle's sveie ineliectually employed; 

 and it was found, in uttcniptlug to give a clyster, that the inter- 

 nal coKt of the gut was so loose and so enlarged, that there was no 

 possibility of injecting it: the colt died aLx)ut sixteen hoiu's 

 after the attack. On examining tue body after death, all the 

 bowels \v*^re found nearly healthy, except the rectum, or last 

 gut, noar ils termination, in which the inner coat was so loose 

 «nd large, that the cavity was nearly obliterated, and scarcely 

 imy [)assage lett for the excresnent. The internal sensible coat 

 of the stomach appeared also in a diseased state, being very 

 tender, and easily separated ; but it was not inflamed. About a 

 week alter, I was accidentaliy informed, iLat the man who had 

 the care of this colt, and was about to train iiira for the furr, Iiad 

 given him three doses of physic; and that the "last had oper- 

 ated so loell, that he thought the colt would never have ceased 

 purging." This was nearly the man's expression, which he had 

 communicated, in the way of conversation, to a groom, belore 

 the colt was taken ill. 



