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test (or can explain satisfactorily the nature of the dis- 

 ease, or the effect of the medicine he recommends), you 

 need not be afraid to employ him to doctor your horse. 

 If this fiery ordeal is thought too severe a test, 1 would 

 say that most diseases of the horse are analagous to ours 

 and require about the same mode of treatment. 



Notwithstanding the horse is often taken suddenly and 

 dangerously ill, when the ingenuity and skill, even of 

 the most experienced may sometimes be taxed to tell the 

 precise difficulty immediately (and it yet is necessary that 

 something should be done on the spot, to relieve his suf- 

 fering, and expedite a cure, before medical aid could be 

 procured), there are those palliating medicines, innocent 

 in themselves, and often useful, that may be administered 

 in the meantime (of which I have recommended), and 

 nine times out of ten, are all that are necessary to be 

 given to effect a speedy and permanent cure, whereby, 

 if relief had not been found in this way, the malady 

 might have gained such headway, that when advice 

 arrived, it would be too late to check it. Although at 

 these times we should be cautious in giving physic as 

 well as when poisons have been taken, for in cases of 

 acute inflammation of the bowels, &c., it might prove 

 fatal. He that remembereth these things doelh well, for 

 how much wiser is a man to-day for what he has for- 

 gotten? 



FEEDING AND MEDICATING. 



The researches of physiologists and botanists, have 

 demonstrated this fact, that the fibrin, the albumen, the 

 oil, and all those earthy salts that go to form bone and 

 muscles in animals, are found in their food, in plants and 



