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volve, will very readily account for any amount of dislike to the fluid 

 form of medicine, more especially when it is stated that veterinary sur- 

 geons are somewhat slow in adopting new ideas, but seem, with the 

 fervor and tenacity ignorance displays toward a favorite superstition, to 

 love and cling to the practices in which they have been educated. 



QENERiJ. MDTQPD OF ADMIMSTEBINO A DRIKE 10 A HORSE. 



Else, it must have occurred to some member of a large profession that 

 to violently oppose the instincts of an animal was hardly commendable 

 in people who professed an observance and a worship of nature's teach- 

 ing. Most animals, however, and the horse among the number, lower 

 the mouth during the act of drinking. The veterinary surgeon, when 

 proceeding in his professional capacity, employs a twitch, with which 

 the head is to be violently upheld while a fluid is being deglutated. 



To illustrate the consequence of such conduct, the reader will pardon 

 the author if he state the results of such opposite proceedings upon a 

 dog in his possession. A saucer of milk being placed upon the floor, 

 the head is lowered and the liquid lapped, without the act being charac- 

 terized by any unusual circumstance. But should the vessel be held on 

 the ordinary level of the mouth, the draught is certain to be inteiTup^ed 



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