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small glass syringe, and the wound will heal up 

 unsightly, often leaving a big knee, and many times a 

 stiff joint. After the wound has healed, the knee should 

 be blistered with biniodide of mercury to reduce the 

 gangrenous lump which is sure to form. All horses that 

 have cut their knees deep enough to allow the synovia 

 to escape are never to be trusted again, as they are sure 

 to fall sooner or later. I now come to a very common 

 and also a very trobblesome complaint, known as 



LAMINITES, 



or fever in the feet. That my readers may 

 thoroughly understand this complaint, it will be 

 necessary that I should give a description of the foot of 

 the horse to show the beautiful handiwork of the Creator, 

 and the ignorance of man, who often look upon the foot 

 of the horse as a solid block of horn, and treats it ac- 

 cordingly. The formation of the foot of the horse fits 

 him above all other animals, except the ass, for the 

 service of man. In short, had the foot of the horse been 

 cleft, it would have been incapacitated from many of the 

 useful departments of its employment, and a correct 

 knowledge of the structures of every part of the foot is 

 indispensably necessary to render us scientific overseers 

 of the farrier's art. The foot externally is composed 

 of the crust, the sole, the bars, and the frog. The 

 crust is that portion which reaches from the 

 termination of the hair to the ground, its greatest 

 depth and thickness is in front, and denominated the 

 toe. It is more shallow at the sides, termed the 

 quarters, and still less behind, termed the heel. In a 



