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whether they do not continually communicate 

 them to him ? 



What noble pages might he written on the 

 close connexion which exists between all or- 

 ganized beings, both physically and morally ! 

 Let us love these animals, let us treat them 

 with kindness, and all our other qualities will 

 be raised by so doing. 



But as a man must belong to the time he 

 lives in, we will take up for a moment with 

 the doctrines of the economists; we will 

 tolerate the extermination of diseased animals, 

 as a painful necessity. Our duty is to seek 

 in the study of the diseases of animals and 

 in their cure, the cure of the disorders which 

 afflict the human species. We shall, there- 

 fore, now proceed to consider the subject of 

 the treatment of horned cattle, both as re- 

 lates to preventive and curative medication. 



