Excerpt from The Advocate of Veterinary Reform and Outlines of Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse The author is in hopes that the principles here set forth may enable those for whom the work is mainly written (viz., our farming interest, and those who have the care of and own horses) to perceive the folly of violating nature's laws, in attempting to cure disease; also, that they may be led to see the wisdom and necessity of aiding nature in her intentions for the removal of the causes of disease. It is a subject of great importance, and should be the pride and duty of every man to sympathize with those who, though our slaves, have common feeling with us. Yes, brutes, as we call them, have, like us, memory, ideas of reflection, reason, and feelings of gratitude and duty; in fact, all those moral powers differing from ours, not in kind, but merely in degree. There is no period, in the history of the United States, when our domestic animals have ranked so high, or have been held in such general estimation, as at the present time; yet there is no subject on which there is such a lamentable want of knowledge, as the proper treatment of the diseases of our domestic animals. How long our citizens will suffer this important branch of study to be neglected, remains to be seen. The sons of America are ever foremost in the field of improvement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.