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but nevertheless lost greater part of his stock by 

 ms-management 



It is far better to prevent than to cure. The 

 laws of the former are better understood than the 

 laws of the latter, and should comprise greatly the 

 foundation of every man's ordinary education. But 

 how expensively and roundabout do many choose 

 to go to work. Actually allow disease, the 

 thief, to enter a stock the stable, and even 

 favour its entrance by taking off the bolts and 

 bars, i.e., lowering and devitalizing the constitution 

 by medicines when the animal is in health. 

 After the steed is stolen, lamentation occurs, 

 and a lock the veterinary surgeon is sent for, 

 and expected to restore that which is lost. 



And what interest, we may ask, can there be 

 in a professional man urging attendance to the 

 correct principles of routine and effective ma- 

 nagement ? Can he be convicted of selfishness ? 

 Does he sell his physic by the advice ? Neither, 

 but in execution of the trust committed to his 

 charge, labouring under the full conviction that, 

 after his years of study, nature is not to be 

 trifled with, even though it be against his pecu- 

 niary interest, he knows it is his duty to expose 

 the fallacy and insecurity of the support on which 

 rests the idea that health can be maintained 

 under such imperfect regulations and treatment. 

 It amounts to a species of cruelty to animals, and 

 owners and stablemen would profit much more by 

 the study of duty and management, than that of 



