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eel, as i£ taken off with an instrument (by a 

 violent fall on a very hard gravel road in 

 Windsor Forest) so as ahnost to destroy 

 ev^ery expectation of cure ; yet by a daily 

 reduction of the fungus, and strict atten- 

 tion to the conformation of the edges of the 

 wounds, a cicatrix was formed, and cure com- 

 pleted, bidding defiance to the eye or touch 

 of the most judicious investigator; which is 

 the most extraordinary, as the colour of the 

 mare was delicate grey. This case is only 

 quoted to prove the possibility of preventing 

 these accidents from becoming so perpe- 

 tually prejudicial, when properly attended 

 to ; while, on the contrary, they become 

 irreparable injuries, in being left to the 

 course of nature ; for, suffered to cicatrize 

 with a prominence constituting an eschar^ 

 they prove an irretrievable blemish, that a 

 very few days proper attention (in most 

 pases) would probably prevent. 



Having; gone through every necessary in- 

 struction that can Dossiblv be advanced for 

 the treatment and cure of the different kinds 

 of lameness proceeding from various causes, 

 one additional remark cannot be too forcibly 

 Inculcated, nor too strictly observed. It is 



