6 How TO Observe Disease. 



natural. The pulse of inflammation and fever numbers from 

 seventy-five to eighty beats in the minute; and in great debil- 

 ity the pulse will number one hundred beats per minute. The 

 pulse is more frequent in young than old animals. In the 

 full-grown and healthy horse it beats thirty-two to thirty- 

 eight in the minute; in the ox or cow, thirty-five to forty-^ 

 two ; in the sheep seventy to eighty-five ; and in the dog, from 

 ninety to ninety-eight. A good sized healthy horse, will take 

 one inspiration to three of the pulse beats. When the 

 breathing is more frequent or slower, and when irregular, or 

 laborious and difficult, there is then disease. Both the pulse 

 and breathing will be quickened by exposure to heat or over- 

 exercise, but by placing the animal in a cool, well ventilated 

 stable, the breathing and pulse will be lessened. 



Bleeding in domestic as well as veterinary practice, is 

 almost discarded and obsolete. Blood-letting and over-phy- 

 sicking are powerful and depressing agents ; so much so, 

 that when carried to any extent, few, if any animals will 

 have vitality to combat the disease. Let the strength of 

 the animal be maintained, because if that failed, where is the 

 chance of recovery ? Avoid these measures, and substitute a 

 rational and successful system of treating the diseases of 

 your animals. 



The reader of this book cannot fail to see how simple it 

 is to ascertain the disease your animal in sufifering from, 

 and how successfully you can arrest and cure diseases of 

 your domestic animals, by adopting our method of treat- 

 ment. And it will surely be infinitely more profitable for 

 yourself and pleasant for. the faithful, loving animal to have 

 you assist it to over- come disease, by your own art and med- 

 icine, than to realize that it must look to some other than its 

 master for care or help. The dumb brute never forgets the 

 one who relieves its suflferings. 



