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PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT. 



Various remedies have also been assumed to be used for taming 

 horses under the pretense of a great secret, or the guise of fascina- 

 tion, on the principle of using certain scents for attracting and con- 

 trolling certain wild animals or fishes. ; These means have about the 

 same effect upon a horse as good apples, or anything else of which 

 the horse is naturally fond. While it is true that horses may some- 

 times, for- example, be strongly repelled by blood or the odor of poi- 

 sonous snakes, and other dangerous animals, and that they are at- 

 tracted and quieted by other scents, I have found nothing of the 



Fig. 58. — The Famous Horse Jet, of Portland, Me., Subdued by the Author in Thirty Minutes. 



kind that would accomplish satisfactory results to me in their con- 

 trol, but little more than would be done by good apples,, or the 

 giving of anything else . of which the horse is fond. Offutt and 

 Fancher, before referred to, were the most pretentious in their use 

 of such scents, the details of which I include in my other work. 



Various alterations or modifications of this method of subduing 

 horses were made at different times by different parties ; but it was 

 not until I was , able to bring into use that here described as the 

 First Method of Subjection, that the real power and effect of 

 this principle of treatment was practically brought out; which 



