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PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT. 



Various remedies have also been assumed to be used for taming 

 horses under the pretense of a great secret, or the guise of fascina- 

 tion, on the principle of using certain scents for attracting and con- 

 trolling certain wild animals or fishes. These means have about the 

 same effect upon a horse as good apples, or anything else of which 

 the horse is naturally fond. While it is true that horses may some- 

 times, for example, be strongly repelled by blood or the odor of poi- 

 sonous snakes, and other dangerous animals, and that they are at- 

 tracted and quieted by other scents, I have found nothing of the 



FIG. 58. The Famous Horse Jet, of Portland, Me., Subdued by the Author in Thirty Minutes. 



kind that would accomplish satisfactory results to me in their con- 

 trol, but little more than would be done by good apples, or the 

 giving of anything else of which the horse is fond. Offutt and 

 Fancher, before referred to, were the most pretentious in their use 

 of such scents, the details of which I include in my other work. 



Various alterations or modifications of this method of subduing 

 horses were made at different times by different parties ; but it was 

 not until I was able to bring into use that here described as the 

 First Method of Subjection, that the real power and effect of 

 this principle of treatment was practically brought out ; which 



