CHAPTER IX 



WHEN THE HORSE IS SICK 



NEXT to the treatment for the different vices 

 and equine shortcomings, one of the first 

 things horse-owners usually want to know 

 about is the treatment of horses when ailing. For, 

 unfortunately, horses are more liable to sickness 

 and accident than any of our domestic animals 

 and often, in such cases, a skilled veterinary phy- 

 sician is too distant to be called in. 



I wish to state, in taking up this subject, that 

 I am not a veterinary physician and the few reme- 

 dies that I shall point out are simply those that I 

 have found useful in the treatment of those ail- 

 ments that are of most frequent occurrence and 

 which, as a rule, require immediate attention. A 

 great many of my readers are doubtless unable, 

 in many instances, to secure the services of a good 

 veterinarian. With me, the inability to secure 

 such services has existed practically all my life — 

 or, at least, all of it that has been spent in the 

 country, which includes by far the greater part. 

 For, as a rule, it is only in our larger cities that 



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