Vi PREFACE. 



The intelligent reader is probably aware that some 

 animals will survive the most frightful injuries, and 

 reckless methods of practice; hence, if a poor, sick 

 brute recovers its ordinary health, after Laving more 

 than one-half of its blood abstracted, and the remain- 

 ing portion poisoned by tartar emetic, corrosive subli- 

 mate, arsenic, or antimony, medicines in great repute 

 among men who reverence science instead of nature, or 

 nature's God. The inference to the rational mind is, 

 — and on the strength of logical arguments which I 

 might introduce, — that the supreme vital powers of 

 the system successfully combatted both the disease and 

 the outrageous treatment. 



I am well aware that such real, matter-of-fact opin- 

 ions conflict with those of many well-educated, and 

 honest physicians ; and it is a notorious fact, that the 

 popular opinion of the non-medical world, who obtain 

 their knowledge of veterinary science from the experi- 

 ence and writings of men more desirous of sustaining 

 the rotten autocracy of science over nature, rather than 

 to establish nature^s autocracy, is somewhat against 

 me ; yet, as I have truth, reason, and experience to sus- 

 tain me, I fear not the consequences of an impartial 

 investigation. 



The remedies recommended in the following pages, 

 for the treatment of bovine afflictions, are selected in 

 consequence of their well-known sanative effects ; they 

 are calculated to favor vital action, and remove ordi- 

 nary obstructions wherever they exist ; and if the reader 



