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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, upon which to take action 

 upon a question of extreme moment, directly to the well-being 

 of the horse, whose natural rights it is the morally and legally 

 recognized guardian and advocate; and, incidentally, to the 

 main objects to attain which, the society has been called into 

 existence, and to society at large. I respectfully suggest, that 

 a committee of this Society be appointed to inquire into the 

 value of the modes of treatment enunciated in this work. 

 This can readily be determined by testimony and experiment. 

 I am prepared to show by the testimony of gentlemen, owners 

 of horses, and of well known horsemen of this city whose 

 horses I have treated, and some of whom, moreover, I have in- 

 structed in my processes and plans of treatment, that the 

 majority of all the diseases incidental to horses' feet are curable 

 by the means I recommend, and many of them by no other 

 means; that they have the merit of being simple and easily ac- 

 quired, and their application easy, by any man of intelligence; 

 that there need be no pain consequent upon their application, 

 but that, in many cases, they occasion an immediate relief of 

 pain and lameness. By experiment, I propose to prove beyond 

 a peradventure, that in all the varieties of foot affections, with 

 but very few exceptions, the immediate effect is beneficial, and 

 the ultimate result in a vast majority of lamenesses from diseases 

 of the foot, an absolute cure, if simple rules concerning man- 

 agement and shoeing are observed during the progress of re- 

 covery. If this can be shown to the satisfaction of a com- 

 mittee of this Society, can a doubt exist as to the course the 

 latter ought to pursue in regard to an endorsement of the treat- 

 ment recommended and taught in this work ? 



