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allowed to contract "tlmish," and if lie is 

 suffering from "thrush," it must be cured, 

 or otherwise his frog will be tender and he 

 will not be able to go. Of course, no horse 

 should be allowed to have thrush, as it is 

 produced by standing on fermenting dung, 

 and is evidently microbic in its nature. 

 It is therefore easily preventable, and is 

 cured by a number of microbicides, such 

 as carbolic acid, sulphate of zinc, corrosive 

 sublimate, etc. But perhaps the most 

 convenient is dry calomel. 



I have spoken of this, rather more in 

 detail than I otherwise would, even trench- 

 ing a little on medication, which is rather 

 the province of the veterinarian, and some- 

 what foreign to the general line of thought 

 we have been pursuing, because " thrush " 



