100 HORSE AND MAN. 



A mother, for example, will find that her baby is 

 not looking well, and thinks that it wants ' physic.' 

 So she remembers that last year her husband had 

 some physic from the dispensary, but did not quite 

 finish it. Accordingly, she had put the remainder 

 away, lest it should be wasted, and now gives it to 

 her baby, who may be suffering from teething, or 

 whooping cough, or measles, or chicken-pox. Any 

 experienced dispensary surgeon has seen plenty of 

 such cases. 



The clergyman of the parish would not dare to 

 do such a thing, because he is sufficiently educated 

 to know and acknowledge his own ignorance of 

 medicine. It must be evident, therefore, that half- 

 measures are useless, and that if a horse-owner does 

 not wish to have his horses poisoned by drugs or 

 lamed by ointment and oils, his only plan is to for- 

 bid them absolutely. 



