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elegantly formed thorough-bred carrying a beautiful lady, 
whose seat in the saddle would indicate, if we may use the 
phrase without offence, that she must be a part of the 
animal upon which she sits ? Compare this graceful animal, 
in which every bone and sinew of its limbs is as free from 
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disease as on the day he was foaled, with the broken-down, 
stilty, stumpy one, whose legs are deformed by disease, 
and as rigid as a stick, the result of injudicious manage¬ 
ment and the putting him to work long before common 
sense and common humanity would allow he ought to have 
been. 
It is in this way that this noble animal, the most 
beautiful variety of his species, like the “ growing recruit,” 
breaks down long before he arrives at maturity. There 
are at the present time many colts and fillies not more 
than one year and three-quarters old, in training, whose 
legs are suffering from disease from which they will never 
recover. There are also others (the very best of their 
day), not more than three years old, wdiose career on the 
turf is already at an end, in consequence of the diseased 
state of their limbs. 
We would recommend the e Growth of the Recruit 3 to 
the owners and breeders of thorough-bred horses, and, indeed, 
to all who have to do either with the growing man or the 
growing animal. By its perusal they will find much to 
induce them to legislate for a thorough reform in the 
breeding, rearing, and running of horses. 
The comparative pathologist will also find many remarks 
which are well worth his consideration. Thus at p. 13 
we read, “ How do we know that the blights of plants, or 
the causes of them, are not communicable to animals and 
to man ? We know how intimately related the diseases 
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of man and animals are with famines and unwholesome 
food, and of famines with the diseases of vegetable and 
animal life, as much as with the destruction and loss of 
food.” 
Most of us can look back and bring to mind periods of 
blight in the vegetable kingdom, epizootics among the 
lower animals, and epidemics affecting the human family. 
The relative connection these have one with the other may 
