656 REMARKS ON THE CONDITION OF HUNTERS. 
the interstices of the hips. Notice should also be taken of his 
pulse; and if fever is denoted, he should lose a gallon of blood. 
A pectoral ball, and two ounces of nitre in his water, should be 
given him ; and, instead of his corn, he should have what gruel 
he will drink, and a large bran mash, made rather thin, and nearly 
cold.” 
“ When I first began to keep hunters, we knew nothing of those 
great restoratives in the stable —-flannel bandages , hot water for 
legs, and gruel. The practice of washing legs in very warm wa¬ 
ter, and swathing them in large folds of flannel, takes off soreness 
and inflammation from blows and other injuries, which all hunt¬ 
ers are liable to. Another advantage attending them is, that they 
admit of a horse being shut up in half the time it formerly re¬ 
quired to clean him, which enables him to lie down or roll,which 
he will always do in a loose box, before he gets stiff from his 
work.” 
Nimrod’s mode of treatment, after “ a very hard day,” is as fol¬ 
lows :— 
“ There is a cleanliness in not letting a hunter be taken into 
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the stable until the rough dirt which hangs about him is re¬ 
moved : for which purpose, he should be taken under a shed or 
into another stable ; and the quickest method of removing it is, 
by means of a birch broom. Three minutes will accomplish this. 
He should then be taken into his own stable, have two or three 
quarts of tepid gruel, and his feet and legs above his knees and 
hocks should be well washed with water, nearly hot. When sponged 
well with strained sponges, one set of bandages should be swathed 
around them. His head and body should be well dried, which, 
if he is full of hard meat, will not occupy more than an hour, 
when he should be shut up in a loose house, well littered down, and 
a small feed of corn allowed him. In about two hours, his groom 
should return to him ; his bandages should be taken off, his legs 
well wisped and hand-rubbed, his head and body lightly brushed 
over, and a set of dry bandages put on. A lukewarm mash, 
with a feed of oats in it, and three parts of a pail of tepid water, 
with a very small quantity of hay, will make him comfortable for 
the night; and on the following morning he should go to exer¬ 
cise as soon as it is light, and be walked for an hour with 
an extra cloth and hood. He should have tepid water all that 
day, and a liberal allowance of it, with his usual oats, if he will 
eat them, but no beans. He may have an hour’s walking exer¬ 
cise on the third day; and on the fifth or sixth have a sweat; 
and on the seventh lie will, even after the hardest day , be fit for 
business again.” 
We shall here close our extracts from a work whose merits, as 
