LIST OF SPECIFICS AND REMEDIES. 



trace the jaw along gently towards the mouth. 

 Some four inches below the angle, a notch will 

 be found, in which the artery passes over the 

 jaw. and the throbbing of the pulse will be read- 

 ily felt. 



The pulse makes, in a healthy horse, from 

 thirty-six to forty-two beats per minute, in spirit- 

 ed lighter horses the latter, and in heavy, older 

 horses the former. When the pulse reaches fifty 

 to fifty-five, there is some degree of fever. Seven- 

 ty-five will indicate a dangerous condition, and 

 few horses will long survive a pulse of one hun- 

 dred. Care should be taken not to excite a horse 

 before or while examining the pulse, as it may 

 thus readily be increased ten or fifteen beats to 

 the minute, and mislead as to the true condition. 



EXPLANATION. 



We say if a wrong medicine is given, no injury 

 is done. This perhaps should be explained, as 

 most people overlook the grand beauties of our 

 science ; can't see it, as the saying is. 



The explanation is this: Whenever any organ is 

 diseased, it becomes very susceptible to medicine. 

 Hence we design to give just enough to produce a 

 healing action upon the diseased locality, but not 

 sufficient to affect any other organ that is in 

 health, and the reason of its being wrong is that 

 it is not specific for the locality for which it was 

 given. 



