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14 INTRODUCTION. 



ther your horse is suffering from a disease of an exalted 

 or inflammatory kind; substitute aconite, pure air, and 

 cold water for bleeding, and in a few hours you will have 

 no cause to regret the change. If the disease be of a 

 depressed kind, accompanied with weakness and debility, 

 give nux vomica, iron, and a generous diet. If the dis- 

 ease be an eruptive fever, give sulphite of soda to purify 

 the blood. In rheumatism, administer colchicum and car- 

 bonate of soda. In mange, apply the sulphuret of potassa 

 to the skin, to destroy the small insects which cause the 

 trouble. 



In hard swellings use the preparations of iodine, to 

 cause their absorption. In lameness, allow absolute and 

 entire rest, and apply hot or cold applications and slight 

 irritants to the parts, to remove the products of the sprain. 

 Ascertain the cause of disease, and having found it, have 

 it removed, and the effects will cease. If the animal be 

 costive from eating dry, concentrated feed, remove it, and 

 give green feed or bran, but do not give physic. If diar- 

 rhoea be present, leave it, at least for a time, to itself, as 

 it is nature's plan of getting rid of the offending matter, 

 ut, if it should continue, chalk and opium, as an astrin- 

 gent, are what is wanted. The reader cannot fail to see 

 how simple, and his experience will demonstrate how suc- 

 cessful these measures are in arresting and curing the 

 diseases of all our domestic animals. 



Vis Medicatrix Naturae, or how Diseases are 

 Cured without Medicine. 



Intelligent persons have no difficulty in recognizing in 

 the constitutions of animals and men a power of self- 

 restoration, which is capable of resisting the influence of 



