16 THE horse's rescue. 



have been shod one year, changed from natural, 

 more or less, some way; it being the natural conse- 

 quence, it not being natural for the liorse to have l;is 

 feet ironed. When the horse gets stiff or lame, he is 

 called by the ignorant, foundered. They think or talk 

 that they had watered or fed them to warm, or fed 

 them too much. All the argument they can bring is, 

 he was stiff after thev had fed or watered him. Al- 

 most all men water and feed their horses three times a 

 dav, and it must be soon after the feed if ever they 

 get stiff. This word "founder " has been in use for hun- 

 dreds of years, and, for all of that, it has no meaning; it 

 does not tell how and where the animal is affected^ 

 only he is lame and stiff, he is incurable. So say the 

 ignorant pretenders to great wisdom on the horse. 

 This stiffness is classed in four different kinds of 

 founder — water, grain, plank, and chest founder 

 Some said they are affected one way and some in 

 another; all disagree, and none cure or remove 

 the cause. I differ with them all I have long 

 known what ailed these horses, and can remove the 

 cause, and will explain it all in this work, and pro- 

 duce plenty of honest and scientific men that have had 

 and seen it done; and, as strange as it may appear, it 

 requires no medicine to do this wonderful woik. Re- 

 move the cause, and nature repairs the damages. 

 This work is confined to the feet, tracmg cause to ef- 

 fect and effect to cause. 



I might as well say here what removing the cause 

 does. It lets nature have a chance to repair damages ; 

 it does its work very quick; it cures water, grain, chesty 

 and plank founder; perished shoulders ; it straightens 



