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do much : you will sometimes effect a perfect cure. But be 
prepared for the worst. Guard your prognosis; and guard the 
seemingly recovered animal from the exciting cause of this and 
every other disease. 
Conclusion , Caution , and Encouragement .—And now, gentle¬ 
men, I am not sorry that I have done with these misunderstood, 
mysterious, untractable, and treacherous diseases. The hints 
which I have dropped may at least be useful in giving you a 
more perfect conception of the diagnostic symptoms of these 
maladies and their insidious character; and more particularly 
in putting you on your guard against that which your expe¬ 
rience in country practice, and the testimony of every intelligent 
farmer, and every proprietor of horses on an extensive scale, 
will point out to you as the most prevalent cause of it — 
CONTAGION. 
As for the medical treatment of these diseases, I again repeat, 
while you are honest to your employers, be not discouraged. Na¬ 
ture has an antidote for every poison. The antidote for these 
will ultimately be known. Here is work for your ingenuity. Do 
not quite forget the indications of cure which I have traced out; 
and remember, that he who does discover a remedy for glanders, 
as well as for rabies, will deserve well of his profession and his 
country. 
THE VETERINARIAN , MAY 1 , 1832 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, »e quid vcri non audcat.—C icero. 
Amidst the occasional rebuffs that we meet with in the prac¬ 
tice of our undervalued profession, we naturally look about for, 
and we are not slow in finding, some consolatory circumstances 
to reconcile us to ourselves, and to justify us in our own minds for 
having embarked our reputation and our fortune in such a pursuit: 
and that which oftenest presents itself (and the more we regard 
it the more satisfactory it is) is, the value and worth, not merely 
pecuniary but intellectual and moral, of our patients. 
The superficial or the selfish observer, the ignoramus or the 
human brute, may regard the domesticated animals merely a£ 
machines created to administer to his pleasure, and which lie 
