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the description of pain, — whether confined to 

 one particular part, or felt in different parts. 

 We certainly are made aware, if a horse con- 

 tinually turns his head to his side or abdomen, 

 that he suffers pain in the region of those parts ; 

 but it does not indicate the prec^e part of the 

 anatomy affected : the veterinarian must therefore 

 combine circumstances, and draw on his ex- 

 perience of other cases, in order to come to any 

 certain definition of the disease in hand. 



If a man feels pains in his side, no matter from 

 what the pain originates, he naturally puts his 

 hand on it ; now, if he could only do that, I sus- 

 pect that some of our ablest physicians would feel 

 themselves often a little at a loss, and would find 

 pocketing the fee much easier than to a cer- 

 tainty detecting the origin of the pain in many 

 occult cases ; and, with every respect for the pro- 

 fession, I am quite sure that, with a moderate 

 knowledge of the human frame, a medical man 

 could practise with greater success in a given 

 round of cases than could the veterinarian. The 

 only advantage the latter has is, that the com- 

 plaints of his patients are not so varied ; but 

 then he has to contend with the serious difficulty 

 of not being able to gain information from tbiC 

 subject of them. 



The most dangerous, as being the most rapid, 

 of all internal diseases of the horse is 



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