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liable lo founder for eating ihe grain. Heat expands 

 and cold contracts, as every one knows. 



Any lime within forty-eight hours after a horse is 

 foundered, the Indian Remedy is sure to give relief 

 (and no mistake), for I have had frequent opportunities 

 of seeing it tested, without a single failure. Some may 

 laugh and sneer at this mode of curing a founder, be- 

 cause they can not refute it in any other way. It may 

 seem mysterious to others, and I am not prepared to say 

 what its peculiar properties are, unless it is the electri- 

 city it contains; but the more we learn of nature and 

 her laws, the plainer those things appear to us. 



Cure. — As soon as you find that your horse is foun- 

 dered (which you may know by his being stiff and sore, 

 and hardly able to use his fore legs, or keep them under 

 him), take a sharp pointed pen knife and split the wart 

 that is to be found on the back part of the fetlock joint 

 of ihe fore leg, so as to get a spoonfull, say, of blood 

 from each, by making the incision up and down with the 

 leg. Then lead him to some convenient place for the 

 purpose, and let him stand in brook or pond water, about 

 halfway to his knees, two hours. Now lead him back to 

 the stable, and bathe his forward legs in warm water, 

 and rub him well, which will get up a perspiration, and 

 assist in relaxing the muscles. Then give him in food, 

 or ball, or any way you can best, a small handful or lock 

 of hair, taken from the lower part of the abdomen of the 

 human body (of either sex), and your horse will be as 

 well and limber in a short time as though there had 

 nothing happened to him (except the weakness occa- 

 sioned for the time being), and what is more remarkable, 



