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died. His second case was in a large draft horse. After operation, a shoe, such 
as Dr. Bell describes, was applied, and in six weeks horse was at work. In 
this case no shoe was put on and foot went down, and stayed down. 
The essayist mentioned here that the colt had not been born with contracted 
tendons ; for legs were natural and puffy the week before contracting. He 
also uses quinine in all new cuts; as in cases treated in that way there was not 
one-tenth the amount of suppuration, and the wounds generally heal by first 
intention. 
THE ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINE. 
By A. J. Thompson, Y. S. 
(A Paper read before the Indiana Veterinary Association). 
One of the chief aims of this paper is at brevity, for, in the 
language of Sir Robert Southey ; “ If you would be pugent, 
be brief; for ’tis with words as with sunbeams, the more they 
are condensed the deeper they burn.” My object is not to 
tire your patience with an exhaustive discourse on the preva¬ 
lent theories regarding the administration of medicines, but in 
a simple way to bring before you for consideration a few 
simple facts of every day practical experience. I do not even 
promise to present anything entirely new, but shall be quite 
satisfied if I succeed in impressing some old truths upon our 
minds. “Perhaps,” says Dr. Johnson, “the excellence of 
aphorisms consists, not so much in the expression of some rare 
and abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some 
obvious and useful truths in a few words. We frequently fall 
into error and folly, not because the true principles of action 
are not known, but because for the time being they are not 
remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered 
among the benefactors of mankind who contracts all the great 
rules of life into short sentences that may be easily impressed 
on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur 
habitually to the mind.” It is truly said that “’Tis better to 
know much of few things than to know little of many.” A‘ 
correct knowledge of the action of a few simple remedies and 
the proper mode of preparing and administering them so as 
to bring about such action, is of far more practical value than 
a knowledge of the theoretical action of hundreds of drugs 
