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horse be placed into a flat, shallow box, filled 

 with water, into which place the front feet (if not 

 large enough for all his feet), to the depth of cor- 

 onet, keeping him in this position for a day or 

 two, after which (if in warm weather) he may be 

 turned out in shady, low ground pasture through- 

 out the day, with a thick, heavy cushion over 

 each foot, kept well wet, and cushion stuffed with 

 anything that will hold moisture, or if more con- 

 venient, tie the animal so that he is forced to 

 stand with feet in a pool or stream of water part 

 of each day. Though similar treatment to the 

 above has been proposed, I have personally wit- 

 nessed one case where the animal was so badly 

 foundered that every hoof was lost, and were re- 

 placed by just as good feet as the original, and 

 good and serviceable as previously, but always 

 thought if changed in any way whatever it was 

 that the carriage of the head might have been 

 lowered. I name the above as a case in point, 

 from the fact that my father and myself used the 

 animal referred to, in the practice of medicine a 

 number of years after recovery from the terrible 

 founder alluded to. ;' 



TETANUS, OR LOCK-JAW. 



This may be brought on by a sudden shock 

 upon the nervous system, or through violence to 

 some particular nerve, or ganglion of nerves. 

 The foregoing remarks are particularly referable 

 to Traumatic Tetanus, which is caused by injur- 

 ies so slight as often to have attracted no atten 



