Identifier: horsestheirfeedt00page (find matches)
Title: Horses : their feed and their feet, a manual of horse hygiene invaluable for the veteran or novice pointing out the true source of "malaria," "disease waves," influenza, glanders, "pink-eye," etc., and how to prevent and counteract them
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Page, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1840- Cox, George W. (George William), 1827-1902 Weld, Mason Cogswell, 1829-1887
Subjects: Horses Horses -- Diseases
Publisher: New York : Fowler & Wells Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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an possibly digest. They do this, all themore because appearances are against them, and if itdoes not come to their ears, they feel sure that theirneighbors and all who pass or meet them on the road,are saying something about post-meat. If some gentlemens driving-horses had more ofthis sort of diet—outdoor air and freedom from sur-feit—they would not so soon fall into the hands of five-dollar jockeys. How often our eyes are painedat the sight of what was once a horse to be proudof, and whose owner really delighted in him, drag-ging himself along, and looking as if it would be amercy to end his life. His old owner speaks of thecase sorrowfully, and says, When I owned ^Jimhe never looked like that ; he got all he could eat,and I never overworked him. He doesnt add thefurther fact that under his treatment the horse begunto decline, and at an age, too, when he should havebeen in his prime, and that he put him away in con-sequence ! Although the horse has many advantages If* /«(vr----
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Jay-Eye-See, by Dicfator ; Dam, Midnight, by Pilot, Jr. Reduced from the Sportsman. THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET. n over his owner, so far as he has less exciting causesof disease—still, as we all know, his disorders are ofabout the same nature, so far as they go. He hasfewer diseases in number and frequency than we findin the human family; and this comparative exemp-tion from disease bears a pretty close relation to theplainness of his diet. In my recent work entitled Natural Cure ofConsumption, - in which I discuss the advantagesof wheat meal, unbolted and unsifted, over fineflour or any modification of it, in the treatmentor prevention of dyspepsia—a disorder which isat the root of almost all the internal diseases ofman and beast—I make use of the following lan-guage : That most noble of all animals next toman,—and in some aspects far superior to him,—the horse, in his finest and most delicate state, findsa perfect food in the whole grain, chewing it himself.I may, in the mi

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