CHAPTER YIL 



VETERINARY SURGEONS. 



Veterinary Nostrums of the Stableman — Fattening — Glossing the 

 Coat — Conditioning Horses. 



Perhaps no interest of the stable is of as mucli import- 

 ance to the owner of horses as the assurance of the services 

 of a sensible veterinarian, not only when sickness or acci- 

 dent occurs, but as an adviser, with a view to the pre- 

 vention of disease and the promotion of a high standard of 

 health in the horse. 



In a year or so it is our intention to retire from the 

 veterinary profession to the quiet shades of a country home, 

 never more to return to active life, unless it be not to assist 

 with our advice immediate neighbors, in the stable, field, 

 or fold. 



We have thus prefaced with the above remarks, in order 

 to show that we have no private ends to serve or prejudice 

 to vent in a review of this important stable adjunct. Our 

 success and profit in practice, together with the advan- 

 tages accrued thereby to patrons, leave for us nothing 



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