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frequent or slower, and when irregular, or difficult and 

 laborious, there is then disease ; although we sometimes see 

 the breathing quickened and short, when no disease is 

 present. Both the pulse and the breathing will be quick- 

 ened by exposure to heat, as in a stable up-stairs, and ex- 

 posed to an August sun. By removing the animal to a 

 stable not so situated, the breathing and the pulse will be 

 greatly lessened. Hence the advantage of placing animals 

 in a cool and airy place when they are unwell. It saves a 

 great waste of their strength and vitality, thereby enabling 

 them to throw off the effects of disease. 



TEEATMENT OP DISEASE. 



The antiphlogistic plan of treating disease was derived 

 from a theory now entirely exploded, and almost forgotten. 

 Repeated bleedings, blistering, physicking, and starving on 

 low diet, are some of the measures entering into the general 

 plan which has destroyed more life and property than all 

 the wars, ancient or modern. 



Bleeding, in domestic practice, is almost discarded, and 

 in veterinary practice it should never have been employed. 

 And if this 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 reward. Avoid these 

 measures, and substitute a rational and successful system 

 of treating the diseases of your animals. Ascertain whether 

 your horse is suffering from a disease of an exalted or in- 

 flammatory 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 



