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able, and do jet. I will leave that for some more sci- 

 entific man than I am to test. I shall spend my time 

 in introducing what' I know. The horse cannot be 

 cured or the cause of this trouble removed while he is 

 standing in the stable. After the change he must 

 draw loads, and that will draw him back on his base 

 by degrees. The first change will eSect him very 

 much, and he should be helped by washing and rub- 

 bing his legs in water as \^arm as he can bear, and keep 

 it up. Do not get tired; if you do, you will never 

 curs any stiff horses. This is the only way they can 

 be cured. The effect doctors can sometimes find the 

 effect when it gets very bad. That is a little of the 

 effect to tinker at. They have a good long list of 

 names for the effects, many of which have no mean- 

 ing, or, if they have, it does not remove the cause that 

 produces the effect. I have had many of thege fel- 

 lows gather around me, trying to put me through an 

 examination, asking me what I was going to do in 

 cases of ossified cartilage and navicular disease. Poor 

 fools ! what can they do? They have dissected some 

 dead horse's feet, and found that this or that had taken 

 place ; and this trouble had shortened the horse's life, 

 and in many cases caused his death by the suffering he 

 was obliged to endure frcm being out of harmony in 

 many ways internally and externally. I would ask 

 these wonderful talkers. What help is it to the live 

 horse in this same suffering condition that you are 

 able to tell what ailed these dead horses ? They can 

 see no farther inside these horses' feet than I can to 

 tell what condition it is in. All they can do is to 

 open them after theliorseis dead. I can make them as 



