DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



I AIM here to give you, in the plainest and fewest words, an 

 explanation of the causes and symptoms of diseases and the 

 best treatment for cure. All the best chance prescriptions 

 I have obtained during my experience, I also give here. 

 To obtain reliable treatment for diseases, I employed one of 

 the ablest and most successful veterinary surgeons in this 

 country, at a large expense and nearly two years loss of time, 

 to give me a private course of lectures on the treatment of 

 diseases and lameness in horses, and thus give me a practical 

 knowledge of all his best treatments for cure. 



There are but three diseases to which horses are subject 

 that are both common and dangerous ; namely, Colic, In- 

 flammation of the Lungs, and Founder. These three dis- 

 eases constitute about nine-tenths of the causes of loss to the 

 farmers. These diseases will be found carefully explained ; 

 and the plainest, simplest, and most reliable treatment for 

 each, which I know to have been used with most success, 

 and have used myself, is given for cure. Do not be con- 

 fused and dependent upon some neighbor who presumes 

 himself competent because he has a pet receipt or two. 

 I give you treatment you can rely upon, if you follow it 

 rigidly. It is next important to know what to do for 

 cough, sore throat, or distemper, cuts, sprains, bruises, 

 &c. Many a fine horse is ruined, and exposed to severe pain 

 and injury for weeks and months, for want of a little common- 

 sense treatment at the start. A cut on the leg, a simple cork 

 off the hoof, neglected, results in a morbid action that leaves 

 an incurable blemish and injury, which, treated at first prop- 

 erly, would not amount to any thing. Here you will get 

 treatment to be depended upon for all such chance injuries, 

 and all the common diseases, including spavins, ringbones, 

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