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unsuitable, and hopeless task of learning to cure them. Of 

 all things, let the proprietors of cattle renounce forever the 

 insane folly of offering premiums for curing incurable dis- 

 eases, and the hope of providing medicines, which, by a sort 

 of miraculous operation, will enable men to continue in the 

 habit of exposing their animals to the constant risk of such 

 diseases." 



In addition to these remarks, Dr. White says, " Almost all 

 the diseases of cattle arise either from exposure to wet and 

 cold weather, from their food being of a bad quality, or defi- 

 cient in quantity, or from being changed too suddenly from 

 poor, unwholesome keep to richer pasture. It is necessary to 

 observe, also, that the animal is more liable to be injured by 

 exposure to wet and cold, when previously enfeebled by bad 

 keep, old age, or any other cause ; and particularly when 

 brought from a mild, into a cold, situation, I have scarcely 

 met with a disease that is not attributable to a chill. The 

 foolish, expensive, and dangerous medicines prescribed in 

 works on cattle doctoring must have ruined and destroyed 

 many a valuable animal. These books — referring to Clater, 

 Downing, &c. — are written in the old style of quackery, 

 and display the grossest ignorance of the subject, which is 

 attempted to be concealed under a multitude of unintelligible 

 words." 



The author has been consulted in several cases of disease 

 misnamed horn-ail. In the case referred to, there were slow 

 fecal movements or constipation ; the conjunctiva of the eye 

 was injected with yellow fluid, and of course a deficiency of 

 bile in the abomasum, or fourth stomach. The indications 

 were, to promote a healthy action through the whole system, 

 stimulate the digestive organs, remove obstructions, and pro- 

 duce counter-irritation on the external surface. The follow- 

 ing certificate — which was received from Deacon Osgood, a 

 highly respectable farmer of Lancaster, Massachusetts, — will 

 show the result of the treatment : — 



