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slanting inward direction of the shoe. There can be 

 but little doubt but corns are mainly owing to the 

 faults of shoeing, as well as to the fact of shoeing 

 itself, however well performed, preventing the due ex- 

 pansion of the horn when the sole is growing down- 

 ward. The treatment of this disease, like all others 

 and the diseases of the foot in particular, must be 

 begun by removing the cause. The first thing to do 

 with a corn is to remove the shoe and pare out the 

 corn ; do not cut the bars or heels ; pare the corn until 

 it will bend under the pressure of the finger. 

 Veterinary surgeons adopt different modes of treat- 

 ment of corns, but the writer, having after many ex- 

 periments adopted the following with great success, 

 sometimes from continual pressure upon the heels 

 by a bad-made shoe, or by neglect in not having the 

 horse's shoes taken off at proper intervals, the corn, or 

 the foot between the horn of the heel and the bars, 

 will become festered ; if in paring out the corn 

 matter is observed, open the sole to allow of free 

 suppuration, then poultice the foot with warm linseed 

 meal for two or three days ; after the suppuration has 

 ceased dip a piece of cotton wool into carbolised oil 

 (strength five parts oil to one of acid), and insert it 

 into the hole in the foot ; in a few days the foot will 

 have become sound, and by good shoeing and care the 

 corn will cease to trouble, as we have set up a healthy 

 reaction of the food. If the corn is only of the 

 ordinary kind, after the horn has been pared away, 

 hold up the foot and pour a small quantity of 

 muriatic acid upon the corn, keep the foot up 



