go PREPARATION. 
perforce abandon the practice for one more trying—the 
Turkish bath. The Turkish bath, in many instances beyond 
the endurance of the human race, many having succumbed to 
its enervating influence, has proved to horses little short of 
annihilation. 
This tendency is, as I have said, a national failing. We 
have Mr. Darwin’s theory, arising out of Lord Monboddo's 
idea. His lordship said over a century ago, “that in some 
countries the human species have tails like other beasts,” 
and traces monkeys up to men. The wonderful rope trick 
was known many years ago, though introduced as something 
new by the Davenport Brothers, and ascribed to spiritualism. 
The great horse-tamer Mr. Rarey, again, introduced as 
the greatest novelty and successfully palmed off on us a 
trick long before both known and forgotten. 
These, on their introduction, had their believers ; and the 
Turkish bath, like other wild and utterly chimerical schemes, 
found its followers who, only when too late, saw the folly of 
their credulity. In various parts stables were turned into 
horse-baths, or places were built, for the purpose of carrying 
out the sweating process with all its adjuncts. There was, 
however, a strong feeling adverse to such an experiment, and 
comparatively speaking few subjected their horses to the 
ordeal. As no benefit followed its use it was speedily given 
up; not however until several horses had died and others 
had suffered severely from the process. 
