Identifier: horsewarillustra00galt (find matches)
Title: The horse and the war. Illustrated from drawings by Lionel Edwards and from photographs. With a note by Sir Douglas Haig
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Galtrey, Sidney
Subjects: Great Britain. Army Horses
Publisher: London Country life
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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^ to day, it is still goingon—toil, sacrifice, and honour—and just as the men are found so also are theanimals to reinforce the battery and wagon lines, the Cavalry units, and thethousand odds and ends of an Army that must still rely on mans best friend. Debility, the diagnosis of a horses condition when his constitution failshim, when he loses condition, appetite, and all interest in life, when, in fact,his machinery has run so low that it is threatening to stop altogether, is thegreat hospital-filler. If there were no war there would not be this heavypercentage of debility cases among the sick horses and mules, for the troubleis wholly the product of war and the making of war. Very often it is theorigin of other troubles that go to complicate and prolong treatment. It
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ibo THE HORSE AND THE WAR may make the animal more susceptible to those pernicious diseases of theskin ; it may affect respiratory and digestive organs ; and, though the imme-diate cause of the prevalence of ophthalmia in our horses and mules is notknown, debility is not unlikely to be partially responsible in the sense that itmust predispose to any other forms of sickness. Naturally, reduced vitalitymeans less resistance to contagious maladies and the hardships of piercingwinds and horrible clinging mud. Only those who have seen the awful state of roads and a country whichhas been scarred and lacerated out of recognition by artillery fire can trulyunderstand what is at times required of those animals that must be close onthe heels of the troops holding the line. I have especially in mind the lightdraught horses and mules for the field guns and the animals used for packpurposes when the haulage of wagons in bringing up supplies and ammunitionis quite out of the question. War as such i

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