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chinery was out of order, or to find a remedy for their 

 relief. 



In sections of country where the heaves are a very 

 prevalent disease with the horse, a great number of its 

 inhabitants die of consumption; but in some parts of the 

 western states for instance, the horse is seldom if ever 

 known to have what is called heaves in other parts of 

 the country, and there the people know nothing com- 

 paratively about consumption. Thus it behooves us all 

 to study into the causes of disease, and also their best 

 remedies and preventives, for the better we understand 

 these things, the better we shall be prepared to combat 

 them when overtaken by them. The wise will not trust 

 wholly to the doctors in this respect, for they live on the 

 ignorance and misfortune of the people. (Well, they do 

 not live alone if they do,) But some one may think the 

 doctors must live too. That is very true. Every one 

 should live by his own industry; but any one worthy of 

 the name, will keep himself in advance of the common 

 people sufficient to answer as a safeguard for him. And 

 if it should be otherwise, they w^ould only be placed on 

 an equal footing with others in producing the necessaries 

 of life (by the sweat of the brow), instead of destroying 

 it, which no lover of peace and law-abiding person would 

 have reason to find fault with. But as the great book of 

 nature was opened for all, we all have an undisputed 

 right to peruse its leafy pages, and treasure up what 

 knowledge we obtain from its teachings, for our own 

 benefit as well as that of others; and the better we un- 

 derstand this great work, the better it will be for the 



regular physician, and the better it will be for all. The 



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