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shaft having run into his quarter. Ordinary cases of this 

 kind yield to treatment in a few moments. Some nervous 

 systems are susceptible to very intense impressions when 

 once excited, and there will be corresponding difficulty in 

 overcoming them. Therefore success must be determined 

 as much by the intensity of the habit, as by the treatment. 

 The success of the treatment will depend upon the direct- 

 ness with which the brain can be influenced ; but success 

 in getting up a reaction and changing the character as de- 

 sired, must be equally the result of the amount of resist- 

 ance, viciousness, or derangement of the nervous system. 

 These are points which should be studied, since frequently 

 even a minor habit, or apparently trifling form' of resist- 

 ance, may cause a great deal of trouble to be overcome, 

 because of the intensely susceptible as well as positive 

 character of the case. 



I include here an account of a few representative 

 cases, out of the many to which reference could, if neces- 

 sary, be made, mainly for the purpose of showing the re- 

 markable change of character that may be produced in a 

 horse when subjected to proper treatment. 



CASE I. 



When at Buffalo, New York, an eight-year-old sorrel 

 horse, owned by William Press, of Gowanda, was brought as 

 a subject for experiment. This horse when six years old 

 was used to plow corn. The whiffletree coming accident- 

 ally against his quarters, so frightened him that he kicked 

 and ran away, tearing the cultivator to pieces. Every 

 effort to work him afterward only intensified his fear. 

 Four or five times in succession he kicked loose' and ran 

 away, becoming wholly unmanageable. 



Mr. Press was a leading horseman in the town. He 

 had recently taken lessons in the art with a number of 



