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ination of this publication we are free to say, that it contains a vast amount 

 of useful matter, and should be in the hands of all those for whom the work 

 was mainly written. It can be had at Messrs. Stimpson & Reed's, 26 Mer- 

 chants Row, Boston. 



The author would inform the public, that these medicines are not specifics 

 or curealls ; yet, if proper attention is paid to diet, exercise, and stable 

 management, they will perform wonders. 



The popular notion, that disease is under the control of the lancet, firing- 

 iron, and poisonous drugs, and may be cured by them, has caused an im- 

 mense loss to owners of domestic animals. It probably originated a great 

 portion of disease now existing. 



No treatment is scientific, in the opinion of some, unless it includes the 

 lancet, firing-iron, blisters, setons, boring horns, cramming down nauseous 

 medicines, &c. The fact is, that in nine cases out of ten, they do more 

 harm than good. One object of this work is to correct this erroneous 

 notion. When the nature of our curative agents, more powerful than those 

 of the mineralites, (at least to cure,) are understood, and our principles fully 

 carried out, then the practice of veterinary medicine will be a very different 

 thing from what is now taught in the schools of England and France. They 

 will then know the powers that really cure, and devise means of prevention. 

 Animals, when roaming at liberty, are seldom sick, and generally live to a 

 good old age ; yet, when they come under the direction of refined man, they 

 often drag out a miserable existence, and die victims to the popular science 

 of guessing. 



Report of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, in favor of the 

 Author's Medicines. 

 617. Dadd's Horse and Cattle Medicines, by G. H. Dadd, M. D., 

 of Boston. It is a matter of congratulation, that scientific men are turning 

 their attention to the wants and necessities of the brute creation. Too long 

 have our noble horses, and our useful cattle, been subjected to the brutal 

 treatment of ignorant empirics, whose highest ambition seems to be the pos- 

 session of the title of " cow doctor," without a single qualification necessary 

 for the proper exercise of a cow doctor's duties. In the Old World there 

 are schools of study where the veterinary practitioner goes through a 

 thorough course of education, and is prepared to exercise the duties of his 

 profession, understanding^, and with a proper regard to the feelings of his 

 patients ; and he takes his station, next in rank, to the regular physician. 

 From a detailed explanation of the course of practice, the design and the 

 operation of the medicine exhibited by Dr. Dadd, the committee see no rea- 

 son why its use should not be recommended to the public by them, as well 

 as his treatise on the diseases of animals. — Diploma. 



Worcester, Dec. 25, 1849. 

 Dr. Dadd. Dear Sir : — The committee, to whom was referred your 

 horse and cattle medicines, felt that the subject was a novel one to them at 

 the time, and, consequently, they did not feel prepared to say as much in 

 favor of the remedies, &c, as upon more reflection they feel that the subject 

 demands. 



