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favour of fires in stables during wet, damp seasons ; it has a 
beneficial effect in keeping stables healthy; but my experience, 
in hundreds and hundreds of cases, is that cool air is natural 
to the horse, and when the air passages are in an irritable 
state, whether as result of congestion, spasmodic action, 
inability in the lung tissue, or loss of resiliency, or pneu¬ 
monia, and that breathing cold air is the finest sedative we can 
employ; it goes direct to the tissues affected. Cold air 
contains more oxygen than warm air does ; it oxygenates 
and revivifies the blood more effectually. The legs and 
whole system keeps warm. Yes, tie the horse’s head to the 
door, instead of allowing him to get his head stuck in a 
corner, and breathing the same air over and over again. 
The practitioner that does not adopt this method is depriving 
his patient of that which is an influence for good greater 
than all his other remedies put together. On this point I 
have fully convinced myself, but on the question of counter¬ 
irritation I do not pretend to solve that problem. We see 
plenty of horses die when this system is adopted, and they 
die also when it is omitted. Are we not told that man is 
born to die ? Yes, my friends, we must leave it—leave it to 
Him to whom “ a thousand years are but as one day, and 
one day as a thousand years.” 
PRACTICAL HINTS ON STABLE MANAGEMENT 
IN INDIA. 
A Second Edition, revised and enlarged, of a Lecture written 
by J. B. W. Skoulding, Veterinary Surgeon First 
Class, Royal Horse Artillery, the prototype having 
been written and delivered by him when in charge of 
B. F. R. H. A. at Campbellpore, in November, 1875. 
Meerut, 1878. 
[Continued from p. 101.) 
b. Cleanliness .—We will now suppose ourselves to be placed 
in charge of suitable and properly-ventilated stables, and at 
once determine to use every means in our power to keep them 
pure and healthy ; to this end we employ the second agent on 
our list, viz. “ cleanliness,” knowing it to be a most powerful 
factor in the preservation of health, whether of man or ani¬ 
mals, and that the want of it becomes the active coadjutor of 
