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STYPTICS. Applications which sup- 

 press iiemorrliagesor bleeding. It is some- 

 times applied also to those internal remedies 

 which cure bleedins: from the kidneys, or 

 red water, and bleeding from the lungs. 

 When any considerable blood vessel is 

 wounded in the horse, styptics are not to 

 be depended upon ; and when the bleeding 

 is so inconsiderable as to submit to those ap- 

 plications, there is little reason to doubt, 

 that it would cease after a short time without 

 their use. (Sec Mat. Med. Styptics.) 



TEMPERATURE. This subject is very 

 seldom attended to in ihe management of 

 horses, and it is very probable that many 

 of their diseases arise from this omission. 

 Horses that have been long accustomed to 

 warm stables, generally receive injury by 

 being put suddenly into such as are cold, 

 particularly when they are exposed to a 

 current of air : and it is a well known fact, 

 that many formidable diseases are produced 

 by putting a horse that has been accirstomed 

 to live in the open air, too suddenly into a 

 warm stable. To this cause may be attri- 

 buted the various diseases to which horses 

 are subject when taken from grass or camp. 



