The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-10-25

the mares tail. Iquietly inquired what
it was, and it's purpose. No doubt the
doctor was doing everything he thought
was proper and advantageous to the
mare.
In answer to my inquiry, the doctor
slowly arose from his stopped position
and unfolded himself to the height of
about six and one-half feet, spit fair
stream of amber, wiped his mustache
and wrinkled brow with his bandanna,
and glaringly contemplated me for
about thirty seconds before he deigned
to answer me esarcastically, "Young man,
if you don't know what that's for you
have great deal to learn. That's a
poultice (about peck, it was), and it's
to draw the inflammation from the brain
out through the spinal cord"
Such learned indignation could not
be answered only with club. l was
among strangers. l did not answer.
AS matter OF course the animal
died, and the owner is satisfied with
the treatment to this day. have heard
of this same veterinarian doctoring
horse for "gall bladder disease" Now,
horse has no gall bladder, the bile flows
directly from the liver to the intestine.
have seen cavities in the muscles of
horses in which you could bury your
clinched fist, caused by the application
of arsenic, and such like, for the remov-
al of warts.
am not relating isolated cases OF bar
barism, but things that are encountered
had much experience in the country.
Occasionally am called to see a sick
cow that has had her horns bored and
turpentine poured into her head to cure
her of "hollow horn" Also her tail
may be split and salt and pepper placed
in the incision, and all tied up with a
bandage, to kill the "wolf in the tail"
You may think am drawing upon my
imagination for facts, but far from it. l
sometimes have asked, "Where in the
ephemeral deuce is the wolf ?" am al
ways shown soft spot in the tail where
the incision has been made.
Now, the bones of the tail are nothing
but rudimentary backbones, and you
will often find in we'll cows tail one
or more bones not very well developed.
This is the wolf, 80 called by the barn
yard faculty. All cows horns are more
or less hollow close to the head, except
those of young cattle, which are often
solid.
Whenever COW has ceased to chew
her cud, she has not lost her cud, but is
sick, and has ceased to chew her food
over again as all well cattle do.
Do not allow anyone to make her a
cud. Such cuds usually consist of
greasy dish rag, salt herring or lump
of fat meat. These cuds are often ad-
ministered upon the soft end ola broom
stick. This delicate operation usually
succeeds admirably in rupturing the
throat Some people have no idea that
some of the lower animals are more
highly organized than themselves. Mi
croscopically considered, animals, as a
general thing, are every bit as finely or
ganized as man. Their anatomy is COM
paratively the same. The cells, fibres,
nerve terminations, corpuscles and 30
on, are, in many animals, much finer
and more sensitive than the structures
in man. If you doubt this, just spend
a few moments in thinking of the facul-
ties and special senses of some animals,
and tnen ask yourself the question.
What human is their equal in their
special line?
Notwithstanding all our vaunted in.
telligence of the nineteenth century,
all our advances in the sciences, art,
law, religion, chemistry, physiology,
etc., some peoples reasoning powers in
regard to certain human and animal
diseases, are not in the least advanced
above those of the ancient Egyptians.
Show me, If you can, the neighbor'