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10. All medicines are not uniform in their action upon dif- 

 ferent animals. Some substances which are poisonous to man 

 are quite harmless to the horse. The reverse is also true. 



11. The fewer the medicines given the horse, provided the 

 cure is effected, the better. Thousands of valuable animals 

 are killed yearly by excessive drenching. 



12. !N*ature can not* be forced, but may be assisted and re- 

 lieved ; and to accomplish this there must be an adaptation 

 of the treatment to the nature of the disease. 



13. As no effect can exist without adequate cause, when- 

 ever disease is detected, we may be sure that its sources are 

 not far remote. AYhatever these may be, lio time should be 

 lost in tracing them out, and in removing them, if it is possi- 

 ble to do so. 



14. Great as is the disadvantage under which the veteri- 

 nary practitioner labors, from the fact that the sufferer can 

 not speak, it is compensated in great degree by the expressive 

 actions of the animal ; and treatment of the horse may always 

 be undertaken with greater hope and confidence than that 

 of the human- patient, because it may be made, with perfect 

 safety, much more vigorous and decided. 



