18 THE HORSF/s liESCUE. 



This work will be arranged on scientific principlef?, 

 with a foundation and superstructare that will stand, 

 based, ns it is, on truth, facts, and principles that men 

 cannot supersede, if thej equal. These principles j^ou 

 have got to know. To cure tlie horse, you must make 

 him natural. I have read some books on the horse, but 

 I could find nothing in them to clear the fog away, no 

 svstem. There were receipts to cure these difficulties 

 the horse was in, which I well knew were of no kind of 

 use, onlv to make bad worse. I continued mv search. 

 It has been a hard road to travel so far. I am getting 

 off of the subject ; I do not want to write my life in 

 this work. I will explain in this work the effect in 

 all of the different changes, changing back to natural. 

 1 do not intend, for the sake of making a large book, 

 to write much more than enough to convey what I 

 want to on the horse ; the simpler and less complicated, 

 the easier learned and understood. For fear the reader 

 mif^ht misconstrue what I have written before, I will 

 say here I do not mean to be understood that 1 will 

 make all of these lame and deformed horses natural; 

 there are some that are past help, and this work does 

 not take up blemished horses, such as ring-bones and 

 spavins, curb-splints, thorough-pins. I pronounce the 

 ring-bone incurable; it is a bone affection, and the 

 spavin the same. Ring-bone destroys the structure of 

 the foot; they can be relieved some by shoeing and 

 dressing the foot, for which I may give directions in this 

 work. Wlien horses are blemished — the kind 1 have 

 mentioned — they have lost two-thirds of their value, 

 no matter how much they were valued, as it brings 

 them all down on a par, save the clean-limbed, and that 



