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have also been successfully tried, but they are too often 

 found not do be sufficiently active. The remedy which 

 has proved most successful, is the heated cautery carefull}- 

 applied to the injured part. The edges of the horn on both 

 sides of the cvack should be thinned down, and a thick 

 plastering of pitch spread over the parts so as to hold them 

 closely together, as well as to support the hoofs. This 

 plaster to be kept on undisturbed for at least fourteen days, 

 and then the parts should be carefully examined, to ascertain 

 the condition of the coronet, and whether union of the parts 

 has taken place. Should adhesion not be begun, then it 

 must again be covered up and not looked at for eight days, 

 by which time it will have adhered. During this treatment 

 it would be judicious to strengthen the hoof by the use of 

 a bar-shoe, only great care must be taken that there is 

 no bearing at, or immediately below, the separation of the 

 horn. To secure this against such a result, if tlie crust be 

 laturally thick, accompanied by strong quarters, then a 

 little of the crust near the })art should be pared off, to 

 prevent it from resting on the shoe. On the other hand, 

 if the hoof be weak, an indentation should be made in the 

 shoe itself opposite the part, which will prevent any stress, 

 as well as the danger consequent upon a sudden or violent 

 concussion which might have the effect of again cracking 

 the hoof before it had got firmly united. 



In this complaint the horn sometimes gi'ows down entire, 

 but from an unhealtliy action in the coronary ligament, 

 it secretes a narrow slip of horn, generally different in 

 appearance from the other parts, usually of a lighter colour. 

 Although this is the case, it may become perfectly strong, 

 but it must always be considered as a defect, and clearly 

 showins: that the horse has had sand-crack, and of course 

 predisposed to a return of it. The horse may be fit for all 



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