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ease was most prevalent in this country, very few young 
horses were ever stabled either in damp or dry stables. 
Our treatment consisted in giving large doses of sulphate 
of iron, black cohosh, sulphur, acetate of potash, internally, 
and over the enlargement a counter-irritant of bichloride of 
mercury, turpentine and oil of cedar, heating it with a heated 
iron. I now think if we had been less severe in heating it in, 
we would have had less scars to show. 
However much the wise men from across the herring-pond 
may condemn the theory and treatment, they cannot gainsay 
the results; and though individually burdened with an excess 
of modesty, I cannot refrain from giving it as m3 7 opinion, that 
wisdom is not confined to the islands of Britain, but that in 
this wild and wooley West we have men who can give the 
inhabitants thereof pointers, which if they will take will be of 
immense advantage to their patients. Of course these impor¬ 
tations are useful about election times, but when they come 
over here as missionaries, it would be well lor them to bring 
their dinners along. 
I bid the Review God speed in its educational work, and 
hope to see the craft more of a unit as to both theories and 
practice. 1 have before me a veterinary work printed eighty 
years ago. I smile as I read of the recommendations there 
made for treating diseases. Probably in less than eighty years 
our grandchildren will be laughing at our present authors. 
Among other things the writer recommends for tetanus, is 
is to place a board between the ears and give a smart blow 
with a heav)^ hammer. This, he says, will release the jaws so 
that the horse can eat. He also recommends the almost indis¬ 
criminate use of the hot iron—but here I must go slow lest I 
tread on the toes of some of our more modern high lights, 
who hold to it as a sheet anchor. 
Are we advancing, or like a blind horse in a mill, traveling 
in a circle ? What I want is more facts, less theory ; to profit 
by mistakes and to have and use all the charity we can com¬ 
mand. 
V. G. Hunt. 
Arcola, III., Jan. 9th. 1891. 
