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as splints, sidebones, ringbones, curbs, and spavins, are osseous 
excrescences and may sometimes be removed by proper treatment; 
but one of the most prevalent diseases in England is that of roaring 
or unsoundness in the wind, and no remedy, however drastic, can 
combat or remove this evil, which renders the horse comparatively 
valueless, and almost always prevents anything like sustained effort 
on his part. The disease is in the main attributable to the damp¬ 
ness of our climate and the prejudicial effect it has on the horse’s 
respiratory organs. Horses of other countries which can boast of a 
drier and more genial atmosphere are but rarely affected in this 
way, and it has been even said that if a horse touched in the wind 
be sent to the Argentine Republic, a cure may be effected; but ex¬ 
perience tells us that this particular malady is so organic and so 
deep-seated that there exists no successful nostrum for its cure. 
In our relations with the horse, health should be a great consider¬ 
ation, and therefore to him in his hygienic character much is due 
from the dyspeptic gourmand with jaded appetite and impaired 
digestion, as well as from the fair debutante eager to dispel the 
effects of midnight revels by the morning gallop. Once mounted 
on the high-mettled steed, with the keen fresh air blowing in their 
faces, where are all the woes and grievances of life, real and 
imaginary ? Gone, vanished to the four winds of heaven—those 
very winds which give in return a highly advantageous bargain— 
the benefit of a quickened appetite, and the roseate hues of re¬ 
stored health! But in thinking of our own, the horse’s health 
should likewise be studied with due diligence, and taking one con¬ 
sideration with another, the rearing of a foal up to the days of its 
maturity is as difficult a matter as that of an infant. The fact is 
that the horse, as used in this and other civilized countries, passes 
an artificial life. In his free and natural condition he roams over 
the boundless prairie, inhaling the fresh, pure, untainted air, and 
having for his food only the succulent herbage of the plain. Here, 
under man’s domination and the thraldom of civilization, he is 
confined within the four walls of a narrow stable, and fed for the 
most part upon corn, which although of a strengthening is likewise 
of a heating nature. Under these circumstances he is liable to 
chills and the baneful results which arise therefrom. There is 
nothing, for ostensible reasons, so injurious to horses’ health as hot 
stables, and every horse after his day’s work is finished should be 
carefully wisped with straw over the body, and his legs and feet, 
especially, should be washed and dried before he is done up for 
