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and follow up the purgative medicine by diminished doses. 

 In the intervals between the repetition of the purges, helle- 

 bore [poison] should be administered every six hours, in doses 

 of half to a drachm, provided the first quantity make no im- 

 pression ; nothing, bleeding excepted, operates more effectu- 

 ally in diminishing the force of blood to the head, than the 

 excitement of nausea at stomach. Having, by these means, 

 sensibly weakened the impulse of the circulation, the head 

 should be shorn, and blisters applied over the forehead, the 

 occiput, and temples, and should be renewed every six hours, 

 until vesication is abundantly produced." 



This is a specimen of scientific doctoring. Many of our 

 farmers could scarcely believe that men could be so cruel. 

 It is passing strange that the regular faculty, with all their 

 advantages of numbers, learning, and respectability, have only 

 learned how to kill, instead of cure. 



How to avoid Congestions, Staggers, and Apoplexy. — 

 Never permit an animal to eat too great a quantity of food at 

 one time. Let him have less than usual after being worked 

 hard. Buy the best food in the market, for cheap fodder is 

 dear at any price. Attend to the directions we have laid 

 down in the articles Feeding, Watering, &c. ; lastly, avoid 

 the lancet and poison. 



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" The object of the veterinary profession," says Dr. White, 

 "is to remove the pains and diseases of our domestic animals. 

 Can we honestly, heartily, succesfully employ ourselves, 

 if we do not sympathize with them ? if we do not love to see 

 them happy, and contemplate their sufferings with regret ? 

 Can the brute who regards them as mere machines, devoid of 

 rights, placed without the pale of justice, created merely for 

 our purposes, and to be sacrificed without crime to our caprices ; 



