PRACTICAL HINTS ON STABLE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA. ] 01 
arise through the agency of the intense heat of the climate during 
those months of the year known as the hot season, yet, strange 
to relate, those maladies which will inevitably follow sooner or 
later from undue exposure to cold are either treated as matters 
devoid of import, or are ignored as completely as if this climate 
were invariable, and there were no cold season to succeed the hot 
weather. 
Change of temperature .—Nor does it seem to be borne in 
mind that the influence of the extreme heat will have been suffi¬ 
cient to render those within its range more susceptible to the 
change of temperature when the cold weather sets in ; while all 
efforts to bring these effects effectively to notice meet with a sure 
rebuff. Surely this must be an error fraught with danger to 
all, for one would imagine the climate of India to be, from its 
changeability, such as would demand extra care on our parts to 
protect ourselves and our animals against the baneful effects of 
cold chills, even during the hot season, when the changes of 
temperature are so marked and sudden, that although an indi¬ 
vidual may have been perspiring profusely, and on the verge of 
suffocation through the intensity of the heat, he may within a very 
short lapse of time be shivering from the effects of a northerly, 
or under the deadly blast of that generally acknowledged enemy 
of man and beast, the “ east wind.” I say u generally ac¬ 
knowledged,” because some people profess to believe the action 
of an easterly wind to have a highly beneficial effect on horses 
exposed to it in this country. This, however, is a mischievous 
fallacy, for the baneful influence such a wind exercises over the 
health of horses is so marked that during my service I have 
been able to tell from which quarter the wind came by the 
character of the sores affecting patients in hospital, since, if from 
the east, these sores would be torpid and unhealthy, while the 
advent of a westerly breeze seemed to revivify and stimulate the 
most obstinate to healthy action ; nor did the phenomenon escape 
the notice of others, for the salootrie invariably replied to the 
inquiry, “ How are the sores this morning ? ” “ Doing well, 
sir, of course, as of a necessity they should, the wind being in 
the west;” or vice versa. And with this fresh in my memory 
I write to expose so dangerous and foolish a dogma as faith in 
the virtue of the east wind certainly is. 
(To be continued .) 
