Animal mechanics / by Sir Charles Bell ... and Jeffries Wyman.

  • Charles Bell
Date:
1902
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Animal mechanics / by Sir Charles Bell ... and Jeffries Wyman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    demonstration of the dangers of the system. The boys will not be always under this severe control, and yet it is important to their safety. We may learn how necessary it is to bring the animal system gradually into action from the effects of very moderate exercise on a horse just out of the dealer’s hands. The purchaser thinks he may safely drive him ten miles, not aware that the horse has not moved a mile in a week, and the consequence is, inflammation and conges- tion in his lungs. The regulation in the army has been made on a knowledge of these facts. When young horses are brought from the dealer they are ordered to be walked an hour a day the first week, two hours a day the second week, three hours a day in the third week. They are to be fatigued by walking, but they must not be sweated in their exercise. Horses for the turf, under three years old, in training for the Derby, are brought very slowly to their exercise, begin- ning with the lounge; then a very light weight is put upon them, and that gradually increased. Indeed, nothing can better show the effects of ex- ercise in perfecting the muscular action than the consequence of the loss of one day’s training. It will bring the favorite to the bottom of the list, and that without any suspicion of lameness, but from a knowledge of the fact, that even such a