SPECIFIC CURES IN CERTAIN DISEASES. 
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SPECIFIC CURES IN CERTAIN DISEASES. 
By S. H. Ward, V. S., St. Cloud, Minn, 
A Paper read before the Minnesota State Veterinary Medical Association. 
When invited to subscribe something of interest for this 
meeting, I was at a loss what to offer the Association ; and in 
accepting the invitation I felt I was incapable of doing justice 
to any subject pertaining to any particular disease. Our 
periodicals are full of interesting articles, and cover the results 
of diligent research and observation on nearly every disease 
known to science. The thought suggested itself that any essay 
would be an infliction on you, hence the somewhat unusual 
departure from the line generally taken at a meeting of this 
kind. I offer yon this paper, trusting yon will weigh carefully 
and take these receipts for what they are worth, and should like 
it to be distinctly understood that my experience with them is 
very limited, and, therefore, advise cautious experimentation 
before putting much faith in them. 
It has always been my policy to ask owners what they 
thought the trouble was when my services have been requested, 
and oftentimes the cause of the trouble is told unthinkingly, 
when otherwise it would require considerable pumping, even 
if we succeeded at all in eliciting any cause from the owner or 
attendant. If there are any bystanders around, we are informed, 
in nine cases out of ten, that it’s the water, “ doctor.” We 
receive this gratuitously, and are called on to express onr 
thanks and deep obligations, when we are further informed that 
the speaker’s “grandfather,” or some other remote relative, was 
the best “ cow doctor ” in their part of the country, and he always 
used this or did that, and never lost a case. I have suggested 
to the grandson that maybe he never had a case to lose. I 
find, however, that any remarks I may make are not accepted 
readily, and still more vigorous is the resistance when one tries 
to sit on them, and by adopting the old adage, “ Hear, see, and 
say. nothing,” I have gleaned the following valuable receipts, 
which I now offer to von for the first time : 
