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freshed, and his whole organism is put into perfect equilibrium 
and full vigour, and especially mares, when the cestral season is 
passed. 
3. Summer calls for the more management according as exces- 
sive heat, by augmenting muscular sensibility and irritability, the 
more exhausts horses. 
4. But it is in autumn that exercise should be pressed the least. 
Not that we are therefore to prolong the animal’s repose; for, in 
general, nothing is worse for horses than lengthened stay in their 
stables; but we ought to slacken their paces. For example, during 
a cold, humid, or frosty air, we should go less quick than ordinarily. 
Instead of accomplishing ten miles an hour with our horse, we 
should do but eight; and the cartman, in place of his ordinary 
load of 8000 kilogrammes, should content himself with 6000, &c. 
Unfortunately for horses, and especially for those of the army, 
this precaution is far from being regarded. Encampments and 
reviews take place the moment after harvest is begun, and when 
winter is approaching. This rule, established no doubt to suit the 
farmers, tells far too much against the troop horses, and contributes 
not a little to the diseases which annually prove fatal to many of 
them. 
[To be continued.] 
THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1848. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — CiCEno. 
Twenty years ago, notwithstanding at that date thirty years 
had elapsed since Sainbel first transplanted veterinary science into 
Britain, the veterinary profession in our country remained without 
a representative journal. This day twenty years The VETERI- 
NARIAN came into existence — to-day, therefore, we enter on the 
twenty-first year of our journalistic life ; an epoch of some import- 
ance to us as journalists, and one we purpose signalising by— from 
the beginning of 1848 — commencing a New or THIRD SERIES 
of our publication. Remembering that The Veterinarian was 
the first to break the ground of veterinary journalism ; remember- 
