drops back — a position which seems to give him a momentary rest. He 

 lingers in this position for awhile, and then drops in several other atti- 

 tudes, perhaps in rapid succession; then he comes back to this position 

 which gives him rest. This position into which he always drops back — 

 the position which seems to give him the most ease — is the prominent 

 symptom. Now then, you open your book and turn the leaves in which 

 horses are pictured in the various positions into which they get when they 

 are ill; you find a horse occupying the same position your own horse is 

 occupying be ore you. This picture will refer you to a description of the 

 disease of which the prominent symptom is photographed. Then, to be 

 sure that you are right, you turn to this description and you find all the 

 symptoms fully described, and the prominent symptom (that is, the posi- 

 tion into which the horse always drops back, and which gives him the most 

 ease) is fully set forth. Now you know that your horse has the disease 

 here described, and you have nothing to do but to read the instructions 

 concerning the remedy, and go to work. You can cure your horse as well 

 as a veterinary surgeon. Like the working of a problem, there is but one 

 answer, and when you get the answer you know it. There is hardly a pos- 

 sibility of a mistake. 



But this great work does not treat of the horse only. It is a complete 

 stock owner's text-book. It describes and offers remedies for the 



Contagious Diseases of Sheep, Cattle, 

 Swine, and Dogs. 



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 that this book will not answer. 



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