Excerpt from The Modern Horse Doctor
Some knowledge of the law of physiology, as it applies to brute bodies, is indispensable for the successful treatment of disease; and all who practise the veterinary art should study that law, not only in view of practising understandingly, but for the more important purpose of preventing many thousands of unnecessary cases of disease and premature deaths that are annually occurring among all classes of live stock; for many diseases and premature deaths follow encroachments on the sanative laws of life. The more a man knows of physiology, the less faith has he in medicine. He resorts to our great catholicon, Nature. Animals, if left to themselves, invariably do the same thing; they seek rest and some simple agent which their own instinct points out as the Balm of Gilead, and they almost invariably recover, except when about running their last race. The province of the physician is to know when to withhold medicine; for many diseases are self-limited, and would, if the patient were placed in favorable circumstances, run through their various grades up to a healthy termination without the use of some of the trash styled medicine.
Those who wish to practise according to the principles laid down in this work must learn to exercise patience, and practise a rational expectancy. Nature performs all her operations in a series of slow and gradual changes, and any attempts to hurry her can only be accomplished at the expense of the vital principle.
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