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veterinary practice it should never have been employed. And if 

 thia fact shall be the means of opening the eyes of those interested 

 (and who is not ?) in the health of the animals supplying us with 

 meat, and the horse (a willing and a faithful help), to the injury 

 done by bleeding in health or disease, the writer will have his re- 

 ward. Avoid these measures, and substitute a rational and suc- 

 cessful system of treating the diseases of your animals. Ascertain 

 whether your house is suffering from a disease of an exalted or 

 Inflammatory kind ; substitute aconite, pure air, and cold water for 

 bleeding, and in a few hours you will have no cause to regret the 

 change. If the disease be of a depressed kind, accompanied with 

 weakness and debility, give nux vomica, iron, and generous diet. 

 If the disease be an eruptive fever, give sulphite of soda to purify 

 the blood. In rheumatism, administer colchicum and carbonate 

 of soda. In mange, apply the sulphuret of potassa to the skin, 

 and thereby destroy the small insects which cause the trouble. 



In hard swellings use the preparations of iodine, to cause thtir 

 absorption. In lameness, allow absolute and entire rest, and apply 

 hot or cold applications and slight irritants to the parts, to remove 

 the products of the sprain. Ascertain the cause of disease, and 

 having found it, have it removed, and the effects will cease. If 

 the animal be costive from eating dry, concentrated feed, remove 

 it, and give green feed or bran, but do not give physic. If 

 diarrhoea be present, leave it, at least for a time, to itself, as it is 

 nature's plan of getting rid of the offending matter. But, if it 

 should continue, chalk and opium, as an astringent, are what is 

 wanted. The reader cannot fail to see how simple, and his experi- 

 ence will demonstrate how successful these measures are in arrest- 

 ing and curing the disease of all our domestic animals. 



How Diseases are Cured without Medicine. 



Intelligent persons have no diflBculty in recognizing in the con- 

 stitutions of animals and men a power of self-restoration, which 

 is capable of resisting the influence of disease. It is this power 

 that heals wounds, unites broken bones, and supplies lost sub- 

 stances. Diseases are not unfrequently efforts in this direction, 

 intended to stay the action of hurtful material when admitted into 

 the oyete^j. When the eye, for instance, receives a particle of 



