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to some one else equally inhuman, who thenceforth drives and goads the 

 sufferer to labor under the most torturing circumstances, until the animal 

 economy, entirely disorganized, perhaps by years of such unmitigated 

 torture, drops and dies. 



The object of this treatise is to so enlighten the horse owner in the 

 nature of disease as to enable him to determine whether treatment can 

 be made effective — if so, what to do; and especially is it the purpose to 

 so acquaint him with the causes^ that occasion for treatment may be 

 averted. By a study of the facts we give it may be easily known whether 

 cure is possible, and if not it is more merciful to kill and end th© mis^r/ 

 of the poor animal. 



EXTERNAL MANIFESTATIONS OF SOME DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



II. External Manifestation of Disease. 



For all the diseases we have mentioned l)ut little medicine is needed. 

 Rest and nursing are most needed — often months of rest and care, as in 

 the case of spavin, commencing in inflammation and ending in the depo- 

 sition of bony matter, stiffening of the joint, or, as in the case of 

 exostosis of the heads of the bones, they in time become quite anchylosed» 



