194 avery's own farrier, 



science will floufish better when it enables him to com- 

 mand a better price for his labor, and there will be less 

 suffering, less imposition and quackery in the world. 



A change of diet ahnost invariably has a salutary 

 effect while treating most diseases; for instance, in 

 fevers and inflammation, let the diet be more simple, 

 cooling, &c., &c. 



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CHAPTER XXVII. 



ON TRAINING AND EDUCATING THE HORSE; TOGETHER WITH AN- 

 ECDOTES, &C., ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE SAGACITY AND FRIEND- 

 SHIP EXHIBITED BY THE HORSE AND OTHER ANIMALS TOWARDS 



MAN. 



To raise the genius and improve the mind, the old psalmist 

 played on a harp of many strings. 



It has been wisely said by one of our ancient philoso- 

 phers, that the greatest study of man was to know him- 

 self. Now when we have fully learned our own genius 

 and capacit}^ to control and manage the horse perfectly, 

 in all the various branches of his education that he is 

 capable of arriving at, which now is only in its infancy, 

 we shall have attained a high degree of eminence towards 

 that end. And then we have been privileged by the high- 

 est authority to have dominion and rule over all the 

 beasts of the fiekl; or, of the whole animal creation we 

 were to be lord and master. We were not told in a word 

 how to accomplish all this, but we were given wisdom 

 sufficient, when applied to this purpose (which was left 



