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the work to be done is not always to be accomplished so readily. 

 Horses of an excitable nature, or bad feeders, or of a delicate 

 constitution, together with accidents, diseases, and other mat- 

 ters which may be denominated of an untoward character, are 

 to be encountered ; and to combat which with success, requires 

 great experience and perseverance on the part of the groom, or 

 indeed of any one having the care of such animals. 



Eationale oe the FoEEfloiNG MoDES. — The modes of 

 treatment whereby condition in the hunter are obtained, are 

 submitted in a form which I trust wiU be plaia and iatelligible 

 to the reader. A slight glimpse, however, into the " why and 

 the wherefore" of a portion at least of the processes detailed, 

 is what every one interested in these matters will naturally 

 desire. Our remarks will, in the main, be limited to the prac- 

 tices of washing, clothing, and lightly feeding the hunter ; 

 proofs of the soundness of which are deducible from the laws 

 governing the functions of the organism, — the study of which 

 is a never-failing source of pleasure and instruction to those 

 who may be interested in a knowledge of their operation. 



After the exertions of the chase — supposing the runs to 

 have been severe and long-continued — the hunter, as a natural 

 consequence, will experience a state of general exhaustion. The 

 vital power, so to speak, will be gone ; and the aim of those 

 directly interested in the welfare of the animal, should be 

 directed to place him as speedily as possible in that state which 

 science, in combination with experience, may devise as being 

 the most favourable to his recovery. 



The principal soiu-ces of the vital power, are the great nervous 

 centres ; and, these from the operation of the circumstances 

 supposed, are in a state of complete exhaustion, the direct 

 consequence of which is, depression of the powers and functions 



