CHAPTER XIII. 



BOW TO PHYSIC A HOKSE SIMPLE EEMEDlHa FOB SIXFJJC 



AILMENTS. 



CAUSES OF AILMENTS — JfEMOINES TO BE GflTEN ONLY BY THE OKDEH OF 

 THE MASTER — DEPLETION AND PURSTNa— SPASMODIC C OLIO— INFLAMMA- 

 TION OF THE BOWELS — INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNQS — HOW TO BLEED — 

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

 PER — WORMS — ^DISEASES OP THE FEET — SCRATCHES —THRUSH — BROKEN 

 KNEES. 



It is not too mucli 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, 

 fronn 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 prejudicial, 

 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 ; arid one or the other, or both com- 

 bined, cause the ruin of half the horses which "go to the 

 bad" every year. 

 There is no quack on earth equal to ai /gnorant, opin- 



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