DR. LEGEAR'S STOCK BOOK. 



Remove the shoe, and having decided that a corn 

 is present, cut or pare down carefully, using a suitable knife. 

 (Fig. 51.) When the corn is reached, the pus, if any be present 

 should be allowed to escape and the cavity cleansed out with Dr. 

 LeGear's Healing Lotion. (See Appendix.) The heel should ba 

 rut down so as to take all pressure from the affected parts. Tut 

 a poultice on the foot, and give a few days' rest; afterwards put 

 on either a bar shoe or a three-quarter shoe, either one of which 

 will take the pressure from the corn. Change the shoes every 

 four weeks and keep the corn well pared out and the horse will 

 travel without much trouble. 



Fig. 51. Hoof Knife. 



GRAVEL IN THE FOOT. 



Whenever a small stone gets into a horse's foot, either through 

 a wound or works into a crevice in the sole or frog up into the 

 quick, it is called "gravel." Some people attribute any matter 

 breaking at the top of the hoof to gravel, which in many o 

 is merely matter working out from the effects of a bruise of the 

 sole or a corn. If a gravel gets into the foot, and is small enough, 

 it will finally work out at the top of the hoof. The horse is gen- 

 erally lame while it is in the foot, but will get over it as soon as 

 it comes out. 



Treatment. 1i any soreness in the foot can be found it should 

 he pared down, and if any matter or a gravel is found it should be 

 removed and the cavity washed out for a few days with our Heal- 

 ing Lotion (.-. Appendix), and the hole protected from all dirt, 

 and il will <oon heal. 



