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disease : from numerous facts and observations, however, col¬ 
lected by practitioners who have paid attention to this subject, 
it would appear, that pneumonia is rather the effect of heat than 
of animal poison. There have been situations occupied by 
great numbers of horses, in which those poisonous agents may 
be said to have been present without the co-operation of heat, 
and where, though the prevalence of other diseases sufficiently 
evinced their morbid influence, pneumonia was hardly ever 
seen.” 
Hot and cold stables—treatment after a severe day— 
Clothing—hay and water—cleanliness—over-reaching. 
“ There is in some horses a strong disposition to get flesh and 
become plethoric, which accounts for their becoming foul so 
much sooner than others, and requiring so much more work to 
prepare them for the field or the starting-post. When Goo¬ 
sander, the dam of Sailor, winner of the Derby in 1820, was in 
training, they were obliged to stGp and sweat her, the fourth 
day, on a journey, such washer aptitude to get flesh. Although 
with all descriptions of horses this is the better extreme of the 
two, it is very injurious to the legs.” 
“ It is quite a mistaken notion, that a horse with a long coat 
on his back is less liable to catch cold than one that has a short 
one ; the latter is closer to him, and is warmer, and is much 
sooner dry. A long hollow coat the wind blows up and exposes 
the skin ; but, what is worse still, it is many hours before it is 
dry after a sweat or rain, during which time it must contain all 
the chilling properties of wet clothes. A horse with a fine coat 
is not subject to that sudden and premature shedding of it 
which Mr. Lawrence mentions as one of the causes of inflam¬ 
matory attacks. There are horses which no exertions of the 
groom can get to wear a good coat, and are exceptions to the 
rule of looking well and being well.” 
We are quite ready to subscribe to the text of our author, 
that a horse with a short or a fine coat is less liable to u catch 
cold” than one with a long or rough coat. Being in a condition 
superior to that of the latter, the former opposes stronger powers 
of resistance to morbid influence in general, supposing the two 
to be subjected to the same sudden vicissitudes ; but, as this is 
not presumed to be the case—the one coming from a warm 
stable, the other from a cold one—we should say (what expe¬ 
rience confirms) that, all other circumstances being equal, the 
long-coated horse is less liable to mischief from exposure to cold 
than the short-coated one. On which principle, the country 
apothecary, whose hackney has to stand for hours in the course 
of his daily round tied to a rail, shivering from cold and wet, 
