| el PRIVATE PRESCRIPTIONS 
from a thorn in his foot. This I removed and the patient 
was all right in a few days. Irelate this merely to illus- 
trate the worth of accurate information, and the absolute 
necessity for careful examination, and intelligent delibera- 
tion before beginning with any treatment. But when the 
disease is clearly defined, when it is exclusively located 
by a process of exclusion, begin at once the careful admin- 
istration of the remedies indicated in such disease, provided 
however, that in case of internal medication, the nature 
and stage of disease makes such a course necessary. 
BE SURE MEDICATION IS INDICATED. 
The reader must bear in mind the important fact that 
medicine alone never cured man nor beast. It merely 
assists nature in effecting a cure. Observation and experi- 
ence have forced the conclusion upon me, that more stock 
are killed through the administration of stuff called medi- 
cine by the ignorant and irresponsible than would have 
died, had nature alone been depended upon for a cure. I 
have found it necessary to physic only about one half the 
stock which I am called to see. Nature and disease are 
diametrically opposed to each other. The one puts forth 
every effort by means of natural law to build up the system, 
while the other exerts all those baleful influences which 
have a tendency to bring about decay and death In the 
treatment of the internal diseases of the horse, I would 
advise that nature be relied upon entirely, until the 
pulse reaches 50 beats per minute; should the pulse go 
beyond this, medication is indicated and I would suggest 
that its administration be promptly begun. But I rec- 
ommend that a dose of medicine for any internal disease 
