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PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT. 



Figs. 43-48. — Modifica- 

 tions of Vicious Character. 



effect passes off, or the horse regains his 

 strength, there will be so great a tendency to 

 gravitate back to the former condition that 

 the treatment will nearly always result in dis- 

 appointment. 



While it is known that many persons have 

 the power of controlling the will of others, or 

 what is termed psychologizing them, and that 

 some of the lower animals secure their prey in 

 this manner, as exhibited by the snake in 

 charming birds and small animals, various cases 

 of which I refer to (particularly in discussing 

 this subject) in my special work on the horse, 

 the principle does not seem to work in the 

 control of horses ; certainly it has not in my ex- 

 perience, and I have hundreds of times pro- 

 duced results before classes which seemed so 

 remarkable to them that they would insist upon 

 searching my gloves and clothes for some scent 

 or odor which might account to them for the 

 effect produced ; and even after this they could 

 scarcely realize that it could be accomplished 

 by the treatment illustrated before them. 1 

 have had members, of classes repeatedly tell 

 me in private that they knew I must have ac- 

 quired my power by some secret not revealed 

 to them, and be so confident of this that they 

 would offer me large sums for it. 



I necessarily acquired a certain exper£- 

 ness, the result of practice and accuracy ol 

 judgment in applying treatment, that often en- 

 abled results, in the control of certain types oj 

 resistance and character, that seemed very re- 

 markable. This was frequently shown in the 

 cases of horses afraid of a blanket, a buffalo- 

 robe, or something of the kind ; in the control 

 of a stallion so as to be led up to a mare and 

 then called away ; the control of a wild and 

 seemingly very dangerous colt that had been 

 proved very unmanageable, so as to drive en- 

 tirely gentle without breeching ; the making ol 

 a colt follow, or the making of a halter-puller 

 when hitched stand quietly without attempt- 



