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to be accomplished is acknowledged to be great. 

 The labour is harrassing, the result is dubious, 

 and any interference can but deteriorate from the 

 success of the issue. A wise person will there- 

 fore see often, observe much, and think long, be- 

 fore he presumes to suggest anything to a medical 

 practitioner, and never will a command issue from 

 his mouth. All, however, within and about the 

 stable, are, for the most part, in their own conceits, 

 qualified to cure the horse ; and curious are the 

 suggestions obtrusively volunteered, and the judg- 

 ments pronounced during every operation. Fre- 

 quently, indeed, is the animal sacrificed by the 

 ignorance of its anxious attendants, who, in their 

 zeal, will often, out of their scanty wages, purchase 

 injurious nostrums, notwithstanding a member of the 

 Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons may be in 

 regular attendance. Happily for the teeth, no spe- 

 cifics are yet declared, and the groom is therefore 

 unwillingly obliged to be idle. The owner should 

 also be passive, seeing that which is ordered is 

 administered, and taking care that no charms are 

 employed. When the tooth that was carious is in the 

 early stage extracted, the animal is by a little con- 



