276 HUMILITY OF REAL KNOWLEDGE. 



to the practice of blood-letting." Another American author, 

 :\Ir. Ptussell Manning, M.I)., V.S., tells us, in 1881, " The day is 

 past for bleeding and purging for every ill that even horseflesh is 

 heir to." 



Dr. Dixon says, " Xature is ever busy by the silent operation 

 of her forces in curing disease. Her medicines are air, warmth, 

 food, water, and sleep. Their use is directed by instinct, and 

 that man is most worthy the name of physician who most reveres 

 her unerring laws." 



673. — Until the martyred Servetus commenced and the 

 honoured Harvey completed the discovery of the circulation 

 of the blood, nothing was really known about the wonderful 

 animal machine, and no one could have been in a position to 

 usefully aid it. Since then, the greatest minds have profoundly 

 searched into the secrets of the noblest work of God, and have 

 learned a very little about how to assist some of the opi'i ations of 

 nature. In so doing they have come to humbly sit at the feet of 

 the Creator of such a marvellous structure^ to put no limit on his 

 power, and to touch his work reverently where they touch it 

 at all. 



We know how deficient a horse book Avill appear to many 

 readers that does not present a long catalogue of those " certain 

 cures " which form such a conspicuous and attractive part of 

 most books on the horse. But we cannot lend ourselves to the 

 perpetuation of error that we long to see corrected both for man 

 and horse, and which we believe to be so mischievous, so costly, 

 and so cruel. 



674. — Xatural and frequent feeding and watering, liberty to 

 move a frame so evidently destined for almost constant action, 

 moderation in exacting demands that are made on his great physical 

 powers, some slight attention to his bodily comfort, and to the skin 

 we can always see and get at, with unlimited access to that rightly 

 mixed air which the Creator has so freely supplied to all his 

 creatures, are the best agents that have yet been discovered either 

 for tlie preservation or the restoration of health. 



G75. — Heat and moisture are the great agents by which 

 nature works in building up or pulling down the animal frame. 



