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doses, once a day, for a few days, will do good by its alterative and 

 puritive effects upon the system. 



(13.) Tread. — This is, as its name indicates, a contused bruise 

 inflicted on the coronet or immediately above the hoof by a tramp 

 of the shoe on another foot, or even by another horse. Keep the 

 wound clean, and apply the tincture of myrrh and aloes daily. 



(14.) QuiTTOR. — This is a serious and painful disease of the 

 foot, of the same nature as poll-evil and fistula in the shoulder ; it 

 is known by a large swelling around or above the hoof, or where 

 the hair joins the hoof, which soon breaks and discharges pus. 



Symptoms. Horse off his feed. Considerable excitement and 

 fever. Holding the feet off the ground, and very painful. A 

 swelling soon shows itself at the coronet, and in a few days breaks 

 and discharges pus. After this the horse will resume his feed, but 

 will not make very free with his foot, which will be better to-day 

 and worse the next day, depending upon the discharge of pus 

 from the foot. 



Causes. A prick from a nail, a bruise on the sole, a suppurat- 

 ing corn, or sometimes from a sand crack taking on suppurative 

 action. 



Treatment. The great secret of the treatment of this disease, is 

 to make a free opening from the bottom of the foot. When this 

 is done at once, you will be greatly surprised to see the swelling go 

 away as quickly as it made its appearance, and if the swelling has 

 broken, it will soon cease to discharge when the opening is made 

 from below, or at the bottom of the foot. Having effected this 

 purpose of an opening, get a small syringe and inject into the 

 opening above, if there be any, and if not from the opening below, 

 a mixture of the sulphate of zinc, two ounces ; rain water, eight 

 ounces, once in the day. If the shoe has been taken off for the 

 purpose of making the opening, have it put on again so as to hold 

 some soft stopping in the sole to keep it soft. Cow dung is as 

 good, if not better, for this purpose, than the best of costl}^ flax- 

 seed. Never, in cases of this disease, apply poultices around the 

 whole of the hoof, as in tliat case the hoof may fall off. Healthy 

 hoofs can be poulticed off. Whatever poultice, it must be applied 

 to the sole. If no opening has been made from below, drop ten 



