DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 171 



taking off bunches, and all those common difficulties to 

 which horses are subject, which makes this little book invalu- 

 able to horse-owners. The chapter on shoeing should be 

 read with much care. I have tried to make the ideas plain 

 and comprehensive for cure ; and the advice, if followed, will 

 save many a valuable horse from lameness and injury 

 from shoeing. The importance of keeping the feet strong 

 and healthy, the annoyance, damage, and loss so common 

 from ignorance in shoeing, induce me to make a special 

 effort to make what is written on the subject as clear and full 

 in detail as I could. In the name of common-sense, as a 

 matter of personal interest to you, see at least that your 

 horses are not ruined, by preventing the possible roughness 

 and ignorance of the shoer from a repetition of his too com- 

 mon faults. 



Believe me in this, at least : I have, at great expense and 

 trouble, done the very best I could to give you such instruc- 

 tion and treatment as I was able to do, which time and expe- 

 rience will, I am led to hope, make you appreciate more 

 highly. 



DR. WILLIAM SOMERVILLE'S CERTIFICATE. 



" This is to certify that D. Magner, Esq., served under me 

 nearly two years, during 1868 and 1869, as an apprentice, to 

 learn and be instructed in the veterinary profession. I con- 

 sider him well qualified to treat successfully all diseases in 

 horses, and able to practise as a skilful and competent veteri- 

 nary surgeon. 



"WM. SOMERVILLE, 



" Veterinary Surgeon. 

 " A member of two Veterinary Colleges, 



" and thirty-six years' practice* 

 "Buffalo Horse Infirmary, 127 Erie St., 

 "August ist, 1869." 



Respectfully, 



D. MAGNER. 



I would urge the necessity, at least of ordinary prudence, 

 in preventing colds and sickness by guarding against un- 

 necessary exposure, or mercilessly driving until in a profuse 

 perspiration, and then leaving the horse in some cold, bleak 

 place, without more, perhaps, than a poor blanket, and that 



