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of food; they will find but little use for the bitter root 

 and steaming, which may be used to such an extent, as 

 to become in time as injurious to the system, as the 

 older practice of the use of calomel and the lancet. 

 Therefore we see that an ounce of preventive is equal in 

 value to a pound of cure. Did you ask what has this to 

 do with the horse? We will see directly. In most cases 

 of disease where a physician is called, it is the animal 

 feeling and powers that are diseased, whereby the phy- 

 sical strength is lessened. So, what is good for man is 

 also good for the horse, and has about the same effect on 

 the one as on the other, generally speaking, under similar 

 circumstances; but when the mind or mental faculties 

 are impaired, then it becomes quite a different thing 

 which we have nothing to do with here. 



Now, supposing a horse to have the heaves, and you 

 feed him with clean, bright straw, or stalks (instead of 

 musty hay), and also let potatoes, carrots and apples form 

 a part of his diet, and he will perform as much work as 

 before he was diseased, and seldom show any symptoms 

 of the disease. Well, now, had he lived on this kind of 

 food previous to his being attacked with this disease, 

 and had not been allowed to take cold, would it not have 

 served as a preventive against the disease? Reason 

 teaches us that it would most certainly. And so it is 

 with most diseases of the horse. They can be prevented 

 by judicious feeding, careful driving, a close observation 

 of and supplying their many wants. To this I am mainly 

 indebted for my success. 1 have been as seldom puzzled 

 as a great many others in telling what part of the ma- 



