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CLOSING REMARKS. 



Life is before us; let us use it as children of one far superior 

 to any and all of us, whose all-seing eye ever rests upon us, and 

 to whom we should return thanks for everything we enjoy, as 

 ail this is a gift from Him. 



I have already gone beyond the space I intended to 

 occupy when I commenced this work, but any one can 

 readily perceive my limited position, and will excuse me 

 for going over so much ground, when they consider that 

 a whole volume would be necessary to describe the eye 

 or foot alone of the horse, in all its parts. 



Thinking that a description of all the various diseases 

 that the horse is liable to, together with the remedies 

 suitable for their cure, would be more useful and satis- 

 factory to the public (which I have endeavored to do as 

 well as my feeble pen could describe my ideas), than to 

 undertake to give an anatomical description of his com- 

 plicated structure, which could be of no earthly use to 

 any one unless he had a practical knowledge of the 

 other. It is our business to take care of the horse, which 

 differs a little here from the engine, that we both manu- 

 facture and keep in repair afterwards. 



If one-half of the time and expense that has been laid 

 out in analyzing minerals, and manufacturing theories, 

 had been laid out in studying into the nature of disease, 

 and their proper treatment by simple vegetable medicine, 

 we should have been far better off (to-day) than we now 

 are, I think. 



And whenever I am conscious that this little book has 

 been the means of saving one poor man's horse, I shall 



