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■with anytliing like the rapidity which washing does. Warm 

 water is a powerful sedative, and if applied freely to the skin 

 generally, its eifects are known to be soothing and grateful in the 

 extreme. Whoever applies it, however, should at the time 

 work with a will ; and after washing, and scraping the animal as 

 dry as possible, not a moment should be lost in putting on the 

 clothes, and folding bandages around the limbs. Eeaction wiU 

 then speedily commence, and total dryness of the hair almost as 

 speedily follow. 



Again, from the want of vital power within the digestive 

 organs, arising, as previously stated, from the withdrawal of 

 such power for the supply of other structures, it will be 

 dangerous in the extreme to allow the animal to gorge his 

 stomach vnth food. Delicate feeders are not to be feared in 

 this respect ; it is rarely they will partake of anything, the 

 difiBculty, in fact, is to induce that change within them, which 

 leads to the requiring of food ; but with horses which enter the 

 stable ravenously hungry, the greatest caution on the part of 

 those in attendance is required. No danger is to be apprehended 

 from allowing the hunter a liberal portion of gruel, or from 

 the administration of raw eggs mixed with tepid water. These 

 are the proper kinds of food to allow, inasmuch as they afford 

 nutrition to the system, without the digestive organs being 

 previously called upon to digest it. The stomach and digestive 

 organs, upon such occasions, are not only destitute of the 

 power necessary to digest a liberal supply of food, but from 

 circumstances in which they are placed, these organs must 

 of necessity remain so until their vital energies are fully 

 restored. 



In closing our observations regarding the dietetic manage- 

 ment of the hunter, I may observe, that the hay required for 

 his use should be two years old, free from dust, and from what 



