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that is likely to develop so much knowledge of 

 the positive seat where Navicular lameness is 

 suspected as twisting the foot in your examina- 

 tions, which will cause more or less flinching in 

 this affection. 



TREATMENT. 



Raise heel of shoe, and keep foot wrapped 

 in heavy cloth, saturated with Alum or Sugar of 

 Lead water, 1 ounce of either to 1 gallon of cold 

 water, binding on cloth so as to completely cover 

 the coronet, or keep foot confined in broad, flat 

 box, made water tight, and continually submer- 

 ged in cold water. In cases of long standing, 

 counter-irritation by means of liniment composed 

 of Ammonia 2 ounces, Turpentine 1 ounce, and 

 Alcoholic Spirits Camphor 1 ounce, may be 

 strongly applied and often repeated over the 

 coronet. Blistering however with the fly prepar- 

 ations of the shops have proved more effective 

 sometimes than all other means; and cases of 

 slight, but long standing lameness of this kind, 

 have often recovered on slow, careful use, after 

 all advised means had apparently failed alto- 

 gether. 



PNASAI\CA, ot\ DP^OPSY, 



May embrace the limbs, skin, and external 

 parts only, or in other cases may take in the whole 

 system; and is known by more or less swelling 

 of the limbs in some cases only; while in others 

 there is a general accumulation of watery fluid 



