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would have lived, that have been sacrificed at the shrine of 

 ignorance, error, and bad judgment. This condition of things in 

 relation to the treatment of diseases of the horse, and indeed all 

 our faithful animals, may be ascribed largely to the diligence and 

 persistence of American publishers in deluging the country with 

 reprints of old English books that should never have been written. 



Treatment. Give plenty of good food to the maltreated animal, 

 and give the following blood-making medicines : — Powdered sul- 

 phate of iron, three ounces ; gentian root, three ounces. Mix, and 

 divide into twenty-four powders, and give one powder night and 

 morning. If there is much swelling about the body, add five 

 grains of powdered Spanish fly to the evening powder, for a few 

 nights only. Be assured the animal is fully restored before it is 

 put to hard work. 



Deformities. — In young colts will often be observed a deform- 

 ity of one or both fore legs from the knee down, giving the whole 

 appearance an awkward look. Farmers having such a colt should 

 not think it useless, or at all impaired ; for in my own extensive 

 practice, I have not seen one that did not becomt) as perfect as the 

 best formed of animals. 



Observe. — Whether the mother have sufficient milk for the colt, 

 and if not, teach the colt to suck milk out of a bottle, or from 

 something else ; for by good nourishment these deformed condi- 

 tions of the legs wiU disappear. 



Deuteropathia. — A disease of secondary character, or in sym- 

 pathy with another. (See Fever.) 



Diabetes. — This is a disease accompanied by a great and fre- 

 quent flow of urine, containing sugar in solution. 



Causes. The starch, and some constituents of the food are 

 transferred into sugar. The origin of this affection is supposed to 

 be a ferment changing the material of the system into sugar, as 

 diastase converts starch into sugar in malting. 



Symptoms. Great flow of clear urine, very great thirst, ravenous 

 appetite, weakness and general debility. 



Treatment. Although this disease is considered incurable, I 

 have on two occasions cured the animal by the iodide of iron, too 

 expensive a medicine to be recommended for general use. The 

 action of this medicine, at least the iodide portion, allayed the 



