A VETERINARY POTPOURRI. 
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investigators, I still maintain that the world nevertheless needs 
horse and cow doctors educated in the fullest sense, as well as 
pseudo-pathologists, blood counters, half-baked graduates and 
hypodermic syringe zealots. All hail to the mud road, isolated, 
gum boot country veterinarian! 
Did you ever notice how many popular titles a veterinarian 
has ? 
I have been accosted as Dock, Quack, Farrier, Veteran, Cow 
Leech, Hoss Doctor, Vertinary, Venitianary, Vetenary, Old 
Honesty and Day Light Robber. 
And so, my young brother, you should steel yourself never 
to even turn a hair when you are called perhaps anything from 
a pepper-corn to a brewers horse. Of course you might hit the 
fellow in the “ snoot,” but that will never get you anything. 
Once I was asked by a horse doctor if I had ever studied Dr. 
Kendall’s work on the horse. Astounded at my ignorance, the 
Dr. (?) further asked if I did not claim to be a Venetian Ser¬ 
geant. 
I modestly admitted I was one and told him I had often 
heard of him and his skill as a surgeon; I was pleased to meet 
him, etc. 
I finally asked him confidentially if he had ever performed 
“ aortic regurgitation.” “ Yes, several times,” he replied, “ and 
I can tell you it is an awful bloody operation.” 
You are summoned to a horse that is down, where, if you 
do your duty, you will get him on his feet. No help can be had. 
You have the self-locking hoist and sling, but no horse to pull 
him up. How could you raise him ? 
Answer: Adjust the sling, back the running gears of a farm 
wagon up to the door, raise one hind wheel, run the other 
against side of open door, slip a rail between spokes of front 
wheels on top of coupling pole, tie rope to a spoke of raised 
hind wheel, and turn wheel toward you, in this way gradually 
winding up the rope, and so thus raising the horse. When the 
horse is at desirable height, push a pole between spokes of hind 
wheels under the hounds, and this will hold the weight perfectly 
secure. 
