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rounded a little, the heels raised, and the shoe again put on. 

 Years afterward, upon my return to that place, I heard the owner 

 state publicly the facts concerning- this horse. He said that it had 

 been lame for over a month ; that he was unable to find out the 

 cause of the trouble, and did not know what to do for it; that 1 

 examined the horse and took it to the .shop; that he did not know 

 what I did with the case ; he only knew that it never took a lame 

 step afterward. He as much as inferred that the cure was made 

 by some secret manipulation of my own which I did not divulge. 

 The horse happened to be kept idle for about a week after the 

 change in the shoeing, which gave the irritation time to pass off, 

 so that when the horse was put to work and found not lame, it 

 was regarded as a remarkable cure. 



At the Sanitarium, in Battle Creek, Mich., while engaged in 

 writing and revising this work, I was requested to look at a very 

 fine horse owned by the institution. It had been lame for three 

 or four weeks, and upon examination I concluded it was a simple 

 case of navicular-joint lameness. I ordered the shoe to be taken 

 off and changed as before directed, and again put on. Tliere 

 being some slight inflammation in the foot, I directed that se^•eral 

 thicknesses of blanket be wound around it, and kept wet for a 

 week, at the expiration of which time the horse seemed to be all 

 right; but I told the manager that, to make a permanent cure, 

 the horse must not be put to work yet for three or four weeks, 

 and then to drive only on a walk upon a smooth road. My in- 

 structions were followed, the horse put to work in due time, and 

 the cure proved to be permanent. 



Soon after my visit to Cleveland, Ohio (referred to in Personal 

 Experience), " Gifford," one of my trained horses, sprained one of 

 his feet so badly that he could scarcely walk upon it. I simply 

 rounded the toe, raised the heels, and kept the foot wet for a week, 

 when the soreness and inflammation entirely disappeared. Being 

 compelled to move him, I drove him carefully on a walk for 

 several weeks, after which the shoe was gradually lowered again 

 at the heel. A year after this, he sprained the opposite foot in 

 the same manner, showing great pain and lameness. It was 

 treated in the same manner as the other, and with the same suc- 

 cess. I could refer to a great many cases showing the good results 

 of this simple treatment, which could be done by any one by the 

 dii'ections here given. 



