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If what I have written is true, and it is 

 true, the greater part of veterinary medi- 

 cine will have to be rewritten. 



All the diseases produced by the defi- 

 cient oxidation of tissue must be elimina- 

 ted, and aside from accidents, traumatisms, 

 etc., very many horse diseases, now recog- 

 nized, will go the way of '' miliary fever," 

 and such like afflictions of mankind that 

 flourished two or three hundred years ago, 

 when physicians shut their patients in 

 close rooms, stuffed cotton in the key-holes, 

 caulked the window and door cracks, 

 sweltered the sick under loads of blankets, 

 and gave hot drinks to sweat out disease, 

 until at last it was found that fresh air 

 and cleanliness had a value, and now even 

 the names of these diseases are found only 

 in medical text-books of a century ago. 



