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kind, accompanied with weakness and debility, give nux 

 vomica, iron, and a generous diet. If the disease be an 

 eruptive fever, give sulphite of soda to purify the blood. 

 In rheumatism, administer colchicum and carbonate of 

 soda. In mange, apply the sulphuret of potassa to the 

 skin, and thereby destroy the small insects which cause 

 the trouble. 



In hard swellings use the preparations of iodine, to cause 

 their absorption. In lameness, allow absolute and entire 

 rest, and apply hot or cold applications and slight irritants 

 to the parts, to remove the products of the sprain. Ascer- 

 tain the cause of disease, and having found it, have it re- 

 moved, and the effects will cease. If the animal be costive 

 from eating dry, concentrated feed, remove it, and give 

 green feed or bran, but do not give physic. If diarrhoea 

 be present, leave it, at least for a time, to itself, as it is 

 nature's plan of getting rid of the offending matter. But, 

 if it should continue, chalk and opium, as an astringent, 

 are w^hat is wanted. The reader cannot fail to see how 

 simple, and his experience will demonstrate how successful 

 these measures are in arresting and curing the diseases of 

 all our domestic animals. 



VIS MEDIOATRIX NATURiE, OE HOW DISEASES AEE CUEED 

 WITHOUT MEDICINE. 



Intelligent persons have no difficulty in recognizing in 

 the constitutions of animals and men a power of self- 

 restoration, which is capable of resisting the influence of 

 disease. It is this power that heals wounds, unites broken 

 bones, and supplies lost substances. Diseases are not un- 

 frequentlv efforts in this direction, intended to stay the action 

 of hurtful material when admitted into the system. When 



