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destiny ; to serve is its lot, to please is its reward. Body and soul it 
devotes to the heartless being who is assigned its appointed lord; it 
will spend its last breath in the gratification of its master; such affection 
surely merits better treatment than the quadruped generally receives. 
When spasm of the diaphragm terminates fatally, approaching dissolu- 
tion is announced by easily recognized signs. The pulse cannot be felt 
at the jaw; the heart only flutters ; the feet are icy cold; a yellow dis- 
charge drains from the nostrils; the breath becomes fetid; the pupil of 
the eye enlarges; the horse wanders round and round its box; it soon 
sinks and perishes. 
ACUTE GASTRITIS. 
This most painful affliction is only known in the horse as the conse- 
quence of some poisonous substance being swallowed. Poisoning entire 
teams of valuable horses has followed the use of certain powders, these 
being mixed with the corn; the intention was to improve the personal 
appearace of the animals to which the drug was administered. Carters 
have a large faith in condition powders, and a distant belief in the magic 
of medicine; in their ignorance, they spend their hard-earned wages to 
procure the stuff, too often compounded of agents which never should be 
trusted in the hands of the uneducated. The men argue, if these powders, 
say one spoonful given each night, will make the horse bloom in a fort- 
night, two spoonfuls must do the same thing in a week; the spoonful 
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A HORSE SUFFERING FROM ACUTE GASTRITIS. 
possibly contains the utmost limits of the dose; that quantity exceeded 
may endanger or destroy life. But ignorance is always impatient; it 
ever desires the speediest results; and if accident attends its eagerness, 
indignation should be visited upon those who put responsible trusts in 
