62 TO HORSE OWNERS. 



those who knew most about the usual manner of treating this diffi- 

 culty, and by those who had tried faithfully everything they could learn 

 of ever being used, but only meeting with dissappointment with each 

 trial of the vaunted remedy. This class (being horsemen) knew that a 

 bone spavin made an otherwise valuable horse of but little worth, for 

 they knew how frequently the most powerful remedies had been used, 

 such as blisters, which were so powerful as to destroy the tissues, and 

 also the red hot iron, which was worse if possible, and still the horse 

 left as bad or worse than before anything had been used— therefore after 

 80 many disappointments of this kind it would be very natural for men 

 having such an experience to say it was impossible to cure a spavin and 

 remove the bunch, and to do it with a remedy so mild as not to blister. 

 But, as we said before, time will prove all things, and so it has been 

 with Kendall's Spavin Cure, and those who were the first to condemn it 

 are now the loudest in its praise ; (I mean those who were horsemen, 

 and who knew that if a cure was to be accomplished there was some- 

 thing needed more than to simply make a few hasty and perhaps faulty 

 applications, and therefore would use the Spavin Cure with patience, 

 according to directions.) 



The time was, in the practice of medicine, when about every patient 

 was subjected to the rash treatment of bleeding and salivation from the 

 indiscriminate use of calomel, but time has proved these plans of treat- 

 ment to be more fruitful of damage than otherwise, so the have 

 become among the things of the past. A similar reform is now caking 

 place in the treatment of the horse, tlie most useful animal ever created ; 

 and horsemen are beginning to learn that a horse needs more humane 

 treatment than he has received in the past, and the cases are very rare 

 which require the powerful remedies that have been in use ; and 1 think 

 we can safely say that those cases never occur which require the use of 

 the red hot iron, and the men are very few that would allow this bar- 

 barous treatment to be practised upon their own person ; and we ask 

 why any man should allow the noble animal to be subjected to any treat- 

 ment that he would not submit to upon his own person .f' Could the 

 horse, like Balaam's animal, be for a moment endowed with the power of 

 speech, he would say — do not subject me to any treatment which you 

 consider too cruel for yourself; for we, like ycu, have been created with 

 nerves of sensibility, so that pain is as hard for us to endure as for you, 

 and therefore we ask that you will always have mercy upon us. (as a 

 merciful man should do) and consider, before treating us, (or neglecting 

 to do so,) whether it is doing just as you would be done by. 



It might be of interest to some for us to state here how Kendall's 

 Spavin Cure happened to be discovered. 



