in the following- chapters, and which, I 

 believe, will help to solve this problem 

 for him. While it is not possible to 

 pick out every case in which iodine 

 applications will give the desired result, 

 it is not an exceptionally difficult mat- 

 ter to select the great majority. It is 

 the opinion of most veterinary prac- 

 titioners, who have the ethics of their 

 profession at heart, that the treatment 

 of certain well-known pathological con- 

 ditions of the articulations, by means 

 of the actual cautery, is one of the most 

 disagreeable features of a veterinary 

 practice. It is one of the things that 

 most veterinary practitioners are trying 

 to get away from; it smacks more of 

 quackery and dark-aged farriery than 

 anything else that the veterinarian is 

 obliged to do. When, on top of this, 

 we view this form of treatment from 

 the angle of the humanitarian, we fail 

 to understand why otherwise able and 

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