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which they are forced to live, man adds insult to injury by 
forcing his nauseous and poisonous drugs down their reluctant 
throats. If they recover in spite of both the disease and the 
remedy, drugs get the credit. 
Well, let those use drugs who have faith in them, either in 
the treatment of themselves, their families, or their domestic 
animals; but the reader who looks in this little manual for 
directions for their use will be disappointed. We can not con- 
scientiously give them. 
Animals born of well developed and perfectly healthy parents 
(and none but perfectly healthy and well developed animals 
should ever be permitted to become breeders) may almost uni- 
versally be kept in perfect health. With a sufficient quantity of 
wholesome food, pure water, protection against storms and cold 
in winter, complete ventilation and perfect cleanliness in their 
habitations, and general attention to their comfort and health, 
there will be little call for medical treatment of any kind; and 
in the rare cases which may occur, we would trust mainly to 
Nature, co-operating with her as we could by means of diet, air, 
exercise, and water, on the same principles precisely that are 
applied in the treatment of human beings without drugs. 
The Water-Cure or Hydropathic system has not yet been ex- 
tensively applied to animals; but so far as it has been adopted, 
it has produced the most satisfactory results; and for the bene- 
fit of such of our readers as may have lost their faith in drugs, 
and desire to make a trial of a more rational method, we lay 
before them the following essay, kindly furnished for this work 
by that distinguished physician and writer, R. T. Trall, M.D., 
Principal of the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College. 
IL—WATER-CURE FOR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
BY BR. x. TRALL, M.D. 
The habits of domestic animals being, on the whole, less 
unphysiological than those of human beings, their diseases are, 
as a necessary consequence, less numerous and less complicated. 
They may all be grouped under the head of fevers, inflam- 
