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pletely, to what degree of approximation. I repeat, to 

 answer all these inquiries with any degree of correctness and 

 confidence, requires a man of experience having penetrative 

 and decisive judgment. Veterinarians have not to administer 

 to the " mind diseased;" they have nothing to do with '^ place- 

 boes :" their practice is an affair of cause and effect ; they 

 must be continually working either good or harm, and with- 

 out, on the part of their patients (as far at least as their con- 

 sciousness is concerned), being made acquainted with which 

 they are operating, until the event has made it but too mani- 

 fest to longer remain a secret. 



