FIRST-HAND BITS OF STABLE LORE 



private stable his condition is the more liable to 

 make him not only ill, but seriously so. As the 

 Esquimaux succumb to the conditions of civiliza- 

 tion, as you yourself, after weeks spent in camp- 

 ing out and exposure of all sorts, immediately 

 become ill with a cold on taking up your usual 

 habits of indoor life, so is your horse upset by 

 changed air, food, water, and surroundings, while 

 probably the mental depression and despondency 

 caused by his homesickness for familiar scenes 

 play their important part in reaching this result. 



Horses are poor patients, possess but feeble 

 resistive powers, and the gamest and most sturdy 

 succumb to apparently trifling ailments, which 

 would never seriously affect a human being — the 

 truth being that not only have they often a "faint" 

 heart, but also a really weak heart, and one 

 sometimes failing totally in most extraordinary 

 fashion. True it may be, that such cases have 

 "kept up" bravely until nature was exhausted, 

 and after their disease had advanced further than 

 was appreciated — though this is hardly likely. 



Physicians find great difficulty in diagnosing 

 cases of the human subject where questions may 

 be answered and symptoms explained. How 

 much more arduous to successfully locate and 



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