26 DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 



temerity or indiscretion, — she knows no exceptions. 

 Her laws are inflexible, — as fixed as those of the Medes 

 and Persians. 



Again we say, keep your animals, for your own eat- 

 ing, on wholesome food, pure water, and in good air ; 

 allow them exercise, and place them under all those 

 various circumstances that produce good health, and of 

 course pure meat. And if you make meat to sell, love 

 your neighbor as yourself, and 



" Be to others kind and true, 

 As you 'd have others be to you." 



Steal from a man's pocket, or rob him on the high- 

 way, — as criminal as it is, and as horrid and awful as 

 may be the consideration of such crime, — rather than rob 

 him of his money, his health, and his LIFE. Oh, that 

 the "auri sacra fames, ''^ (cursed love of gold,) could find 

 some less criminal mode of gratification, some other 

 way of accomplishing its purpose, than that of tamper- 

 ing with the health and life of human beings ! 



ANIBIALS DIFFER. 



There is not only a great difference in the diseases 

 peculiar to different species of animals, but the effects of 

 medicines on them vary. 



Knowledge of the diseases of animals in general can- 

 not be inferred from a knowledge of one particular spe- 

 cies ; for in the diseases of different races, the causes 

 vary, the peculiar nature of diseases is different, and 

 there is also a great difference in the effects of medicine 

 on different species. The anatomy and physiology of 

 animals differ. The dog has no insensible perspiration. 

 Hogs do not perspire over the whole system, like cattle 

 and horses, but they have issues on the inside of their 

 fore legs, which are an outlet for the superflous fluids of 

 the body. 



In the horse, the mouth conveys nothing to the lungs 

 or from them. The passages to the lungs and to the 

 stomach are distinct. The horse and decB, unlike other 

 '^uadmpeds, have no gall bladder. Cattle have bots in 



