CHAPTER Xm. 



fcO'W TO PHTSIC A HORSE — SIMPLE REMEDLKa FOB BlMFl.M 

 AILMENTS. 



OACTiBS OF AILMENTS — MEDICINES TO BE GIVEN ONLY BY THB ORDEB Of 

 THE MASTER — DEPLETION AND PUEGINQ— SPASMODIC COLIC— INFLAMMA- 

 TION OP THB BOWELS— INFLAMMATION OP THE LUNGS- HOW TO BLEED- 

 BALLS AND PURGATIVES— COSTIVENESS— COUGHS— BRONCHITIS— DISTEM- 

 PER — WORMS — DISEASES OP THE FEET — SCRATCHES— THRUSH — BROKBM 

 KNEES. 



It is not too much to say that more than one-half the 

 ailments of horses arise, in the first instance, from bad 

 management, — or, to speak more correctly, from absence of 

 all management, — from an improper system of feeding, 

 from ill-constructed, unventilated, filthy stabling, from in- 

 judicious driving, and neglect of cleaning. When disease 

 has arisen, it is immediately aggravated and, perhaps, ren- 

 dered ultimately fatal, either by want of medical aid, or 

 what is far more frequent as well as far more prejudicia'i, 

 ignorant, improper, and often violent treatment, either on 

 a wrong diagnosis of the affection, or on a still more 

 •wrong system of relieving it. Over-medicining and vul- 

 garly quacking slightly ailing horses is the bane of half 

 the private stables in cities, and of nearly all the farm sta- 

 bles in the country ; and one or the other, or both com- 

 bined, cause the ruin of half the horses which '* go to tha 

 bad" every year. 

 There is no quack on earth equal to aL ignorant, opin 

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