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situated between the places above spoken of), you may 

 keep sending in vain, without getting a reply from the 

 Utica folks. Why? The telegraph wire is broken and 

 all communication between the two places cut off. 



The brain of the horse (as well as that of man) is the 

 great battery, or source of every motion of the body and 

 limbs. The nerves are the telegraph wires, running from 

 the brain to every part of the body susceptible of motion; 

 thus, he wills the foot to move, and it does so (and not 

 till then). But when the nerves are injured in any way, 

 so that they do not perform their proper office, the tele- 

 graph wire is broken as it were, and the nerves, together 

 with the cords and muscles, lay dormant and inactive. 

 "When you restore the nerves to their wonted office, 

 which is to convey intelligence from the brain to every 

 other part, the whole machinery is set in motion again 

 as before. I have seen the nerves affected in this way 

 by the bite of dogs, and often by corks and taking cold. 

 The safest, the surest, and the most speedy remedy for 

 this is the following: 



Cure — W^isp up hay or straw into a kind of rope, and 

 wind the leg with it from the hoof to the body (or above 

 the swelling if possible); then let a stream of cold water 

 run in at the top of this, and next to the leg, for an hour 

 or two, or until you create a perspiration; then rub the 

 limb until nearly dry, remembering to always rub a 

 swelling of any kind towards the extremities. This will 

 take the swelling and inflammation entirely out; after 

 which wash the parts with wormwood steeped in vine- 

 gar or camphoretted spirits, which is all that will be ne- 

 cessary in most cases of this nature. Yet should it ever 



