Nimrod's remarks on the condition of hunters, the choice of horses, and their management : reprinted from the "Sporting magazine" / by C. Tongue.
- Cecil, 1800-1884.
- Date:
- [1880?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Nimrod's remarks on the condition of hunters, the choice of horses, and their management : reprinted from the "Sporting magazine" / by C. Tongue. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![give the animal rest, and rest will do what we cannot. This is their practice in all cases of strain; for,” adds Mr. Hinds, the marechallerie were ill able to retain their sick horses in quarters upon urgent occasions of active service, unless they could demonstrate the fact upon the mew to their superiors. And here,” continues Mr. H. (farther on in the page), I will candidly allow, at setting out, that our neighbours took a correct view of the general cause of all lameness. Those strains which occasion inflam- mation of ligaments, tendons, and muscles, always com- municate fever to the foot, whence arise thrush, canker, sand-crack, &c., &c.” Now as it is impossible to separate the leg from the foot, is it not evident that injury to the one, by over-exertion or strain, produces lameness in the other? and the quotations I have here availed myself of, prove that it is economy in a man who hunts regularly to have an extra horse or two in I his stud. It is the calling on them too soon before absorption has taken place—before excitement has subsided—that ruins half our hunters before they have served half their time, by crippling them in their legs and feet; and this is of necessity i still oftener the fate of coach horses. If hunters past their • eighth year were to be shewn out of the stable on stones, as i the dealers shew their young horses, and no whip to alarm i them was made use of, not one in three would shew sound. I Shoeing, however, has very little to do with it. ««Let a horse,” says Hinds, have a loose stall after i any stage of strain, or disorder of the limbs; look after his I evacuations, and cause them to be regular—a simple fever ] (or inflammation) of the foot depending very often upon t nothing more than one or other of these being stopped, which I affects the whole animal system sometimes, to say nothing of I a single limb.” Ji. If you fail to convince others, you certainly have : convinced me that general inflammation of the vascular I system of the horse is the principal cause of foot lameness;—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28130479_0353.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
