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from drinking certain kinds of water, maj- 

 depend upon its being drank too largel}^, of 

 at too cold a temperature, at a time when 

 the, stomach was not in •dconditioniox receiv- 

 ing so much, or, upon its being so ill tasted, 

 that the horse does not take a sufficient quan- 

 tity for the purposes of digestion ; or if he 

 does, it may create that degree of nausea^ 

 which proves iifjurious to the stomach, and 

 iiiipedes its functions. In the former way 

 we may explain the production of cholic or 

 gripes, by drinking largely of pump water 

 in summer, when the body is heated too 

 much ; and in the latter we can account for 

 that loss of condition and staring coat, jo re- 

 markable in horses that are kept on the coast 

 where the water is brackish. 



FINIS, 



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