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As tlie secreting surface, when once destroyed, cannot be restored, 

 there is no cure, i)roperly so called, for False Quarter. The treatment 

 will consist in restricting the disease within the narrowest possible limits, 

 and in adopting such measures of relief as may enable us most speedily 

 to work the animal again. 



As the treatment of those diseases, which terminate in False Quarter, 

 has been already given, we have now only to deal with the result, namely, 

 the permanent separation in the crust. The earlier stage is usually 

 accompanied with lameness, and the horse must be rested ; and if not in 

 very low condition may be given a dose of physic, which will allay any 

 irritability. The detached portion of the horn on the side of the fissure 

 must be removed, and the fissure itself kept scrupulously clean, for the 

 admission of dirt or gravel 'vvill produce irritation and delay the cure. If 

 much pain is present, it is advisable to apply a poultice. 



As soon as the acute symptoms have subsided, a plaster of tow and tar 

 should be applied to the fissure with a view of keeping out the dirt and 

 of stimulating the parts to throw out new material. A blister may also 

 be applied to the coronet at this part. In a few weeks the lameness will 

 probably subside, and with the assistance of a |-shoe, which will prevent 

 undue pressure and concussion on the seat of the disease, the horse may 

 be worked again. 



In course of time, though the legitimate secretion of the coronary band 

 is not restored, nature will from the surrounding part throw out a species 

 of spurious horn, which will sufficiently protect the sensitive parts imme- 

 diately under the seat of injury, and the horse will be again sound for 

 all practical purposes, and eventually the aid of a |-shoe may be dis- 

 pensed with. Especial care must be taken that the deposit of horn in 

 the neighboui'hood of the False Quarter be not injured by rasping. 



1014. Seedy Toe. 



The disease known as Seedy Toe consists in a separation of the crust 

 from the laminae. It is caused by an iiTegular and unhealthy secretion 

 of the lower portion of the laminae, which is incapable of maintaining the 

 union between the above-named structures. The disease always com- 

 mences in the lower portion of the laminte, and extends upwards and 

 laterally. Though known as seedy toe, the disease frequently affects the 

 quarters, and more rarely other parts of the circumference of the foot. 



Seedy toe is often a result of Laminitis. More often it may be caused 

 by the pressure of the clip of the shoe. In some cases it is due to con- 

 stitutional causes. After the separation has taken place the disease is 

 easily aggravated by dirt or gi'avel getting into the hollow so formed. 



Lameness is not usually present until the disease has run to a very 

 considerable extent upwards. But the farrier, when shoeing the horse, 

 ought to detect it in its earlier stages. When any considerable degree of 

 separation has taken place, a hollow sound will be emitted on percussion. 



In treatment our first endeavour must be to limit the extent of the 

 disease, and secondly, to promote a more vigorous and healthier secretion 

 of horn. All that poiiion of the crust which has become detached from 



