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all other discoveries, this too was scouted at when first announced to the 

 public, as might naturally have been expected, by those who knew most 

 about the usual manner of treating this difficulty, and by those who had 

 tried faithfully everything they could learn of ever being used, but only 

 meeting with disappointment with each trial of the vaunted remedy. This 

 class (being horsemen) knew that a bone spavin made an otherwise valuable 

 horse of but little worth, for they knew how frequently the most powerful 

 remedies had been used, such as blisters, which were so powerful as to de- 

 stroy the tissues, and also the red hot iron, which was worse, if possible, and 

 still the horse left as bad or icorse than before anything had been used — 

 therefore, after so many disappointments of this kind, it would be ve^-y 

 natural for men having such an experience, to say it wcs impossible to cure 

 a spavin, and remove the bunch, and to do it with a remedy so mild as not 

 to blister. But, as we said before, "time will prove all things," and so it 

 has been with Kendall's Spavin Cure, and those who were the first to con- 

 demn it are now the loudest in its praise; (I mean those who were Jwrsemen, 

 and who knew that if a cure was to be accomplished, there was something 

 needed more than to simply make a few hasty and perhaps faulty applica- 

 tions and therefore would use the Spavin Cure with patience according to 

 directions). 



The time was, in the practice of medicine, when about every patient 

 was subjected to the rash treatment of bleeding and salivation from the in- 

 discriminate use of calomel but time has proved these plans of treatment to 

 be more fruitful of damage than otherwise, so they have become among the 

 things of the past. A similar reform is now taking place in the treatment of 

 the horse, the most useful animal ever created; and horsemen are begin- 

 ning to learn that a horse needs more humane treatment than he has received 

 in the past, and the cases are mry ra?'e which require the powerful remedies 

 that have been in use ; and I think we can safely say that those cases never 

 occw?' which require the use of the red hot iron, and the men are very few that 

 would allow this barbarous treatment to be practiced upon their own person ; 

 and we ask why any man should allow this noble animal to be subjected to 

 any treatment that he would not submit to upon his own person? Could 

 the horse, like Balaam's animal, be for a moment endowed with the power 

 of speech, he would say— do not subject me to any treatment which you 

 consider too cruel for yourself; f or wt, like you, have been created with 

 nerves of sensibility, so that pain is as hard for us to endure as for you, and 

 therefore we ask that you will always have mercy upon us (as a merciful 

 man should do), and consider, before treating us, (or neglecting to do so), 

 whether it is doing just as you would be done by. 



It might be of interest to some, for us to state here how Kendall's Spavin 

 Cure happened to be discovered. 



