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Section II. 



ON THE SKIN AND ITS DISEASES. 



SOABIBT PEVBB. 

 CHAPPED HEELS. 

 SUEPBIT. 



BTJLBO0S PET3B1G0. 

 SORENESS OP THE SKIN. 

 MNGWOBM. 



MAITGE. 



GBEA8E. 



ITOHING OF THE BXTKBMITIES. 



WABBLES. 



ANGLEBEEEIBS. 



HAIB CYSTS. 



PEELIMINAEY EEMAEKS. 



I 

 The uses of the skin are numerous. It is the outward 



vesture of every tissue, the aggregate of which constitutes the 



organism of the horse. 



It is the matrix of the hair, a growth which adds beauty 

 to the animal, and forms an important defence to the delicate 

 structures of the skin, and also to other and more deeply 

 situated organs of the body, not only from the varying 

 temperature of climate, but also from the operation of in- 

 numerable agents of an external character, which tend more 

 or less to disturb the economy of the system. 



It is also an extensively secreting organ : of this the reader 

 may judge when I inform him upon the authority of our most 

 eminent physiologists, that the quantity of invisible perspira- 

 tion which daily arises from its extensive surface is equal in 



