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pleasant sauce to be eaten with meat as a salad, as Diosco- 
rides teacheth.” ’ ”* 
At present the rest-harrow is of no repute for any good 
quality, except its beauty; it is not, however, of the size in¬ 
dicated in the extract just quoted that it should stay the 
operation of agricultural implements, so that we incline to 
the modern farmer’s belief that its name of rest-harrow 
rather applies to the fact that the harrow may rest where 
such poor soil as produces it occurs. 
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. 310.) 
G. Kind treatment .—Having described in detail the principles 
laid down for our guidance by all medical authors of note for the 
preservation of the health of man and animals, viz. fresh air, 
cleanliness, good food, pure water, with a judicious amount of 
warmth and exercise, I will offer a few suggestions relative to the 
further comfort of horses in particular, for all the care in the 
world may be wasted if comfort be not studied also. 
On the right of the line in this matter stands kindness, and 
you may receive it as a fact that many a young horse, which 
would otherwise have turned out a quiet, obedient, and useful 
servant, has, through the brutality of an ignorant groom or 
master, been converted into a sullen, dangerous, useless brute; 
it is, therefore, an important matter that we should always be 
gentle, though firm, in handling them, and such a cruel relic of 
the barbarous ages as that instrument of torture, the twitch,” 
should never be allowed to form a portion of any right-minded 
man’s stable or infirmary equipment. The use of it is a cruelty, 
the infliction of which degrades and proves how utterly careless 
a man is of giving pain, so that he himself escapes, or how little 
he can know of the anatomy of that sensitive appendage, “ the 
lip,” in which the nerves are peculiarly numerous. It is also a 
* c English Botany,’ vol. iii, p, 16, 
