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Our Experience with Bone Spavin. 

 The proprietor having a horse which he prized, for her goodness and 

 gentleness, and which in some way became spavined, was under the neces- 

 sity of resorting to the popular remedies in use at that time, for the treat- 

 ment of the spavin; after a few weeks' treatment the outlook seemed to be 

 rather discouraging; but as we had had experience as a practicing physician, 

 and also the benefit of all the receipts which were said to be cures— having 

 been in the drug business for several years, and filled the receipts from the 

 various horsemen in our vicinity— we felt that our experience had been such 

 that we were certainly equal to the task, if any one was, and so we con- 

 tinued, first with this liniment, and then with the other, until we had gone 

 through with the whole catalogue of the (so. called) " sure cures:' We took 

 counsel of the various horsemen who were quite sure their receipts would be 

 just the thing, but when informed that all this and more too had been used 

 we received but little consolation. As the horse was no better, and several 

 weeks had elapsed since we began the treatment, our faith in the power of 

 any remedy to even stop the lameness (to say nothing of removing the enlarge- 

 ment) was very weak; but still we were finally persuaded that a thorough 

 use of blisters might cure, and it was our only hope, and we therefore pro- 

 ceeded to torment the poor animal by applying blisters about every two 

 weeks, and giving the horse rest, until six blisters had been applied, during 

 which time the horse was allowed to remain (nearly all summer) in the barn; 

 and as the horse was no better, that we could perceive, it will be easy for 

 any one to imagine our feelings in regard to the power of any remedy to 

 cure bone spavin, and then we, like many others, were very positive in our 

 opinion that there was nothing which would cure a bone spavin, and finally 

 stopped all treatment. 



About six weeks after we had stopped all treatment, we decided to give 

 the case another trial, for it seemed to us that there was something that would 

 effect a cure if we could only get the right thing. Instead of using the 

 remedies which everybody said were sure cures, we began to reason about 

 the matter, and it occurred to us that if we had been treating a human 

 being we should have treated him in a more humane manner, and therefore 

 we compounded a mixture which was entirely different from anything we 

 had ever heard of being used, and again began to treat the horse, and, to our 

 great surprise, in a short time (about two weeks) the lameness all subsided ; 

 and, by continuing the treatment awhile after the lameness had subsided, the 

 enlargement was entirely removed. I could hardly realize what a wonder- 

 ful cure had finally been accomplished, but after preparing the same mix- 

 ture for a great many cases, without hearing of its failing to cure in a single 

 oase, I was then fully satisfied of the great worth of this remedy to horse own- 

 ers, and began to put it up for the public ; and since that time the cures 



