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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



tlie cleft of the frog:, will invariably brin;^ the 

 Horse down, from the great pain he endures 

 from the foreign substance. 



It has been argued by some very clever 

 men, that thrush is purely local. This I must 

 beg leave to differ from ; for I have seen 

 many cases, where it has been constitutional 

 As for instance : — Many Horses which have 

 had thrushes, have had them stopped, the 

 parts all dried up, and a clean foot bvoughi to 

 view. But, in a few weeks' time, examine 

 his eyes, and it is more than ten to one but 

 you find him either blind, or going blind. I 

 have used all kinds of depletive medicine ; also 

 tonics; but all to no uge. Therefore, how is 

 it to be proved, that it is in no case constitu- 

 tional 1 Now, if you are afraid of losing your 

 Horse's eyes, I think you had better put up 

 with thrush, which is easily again produced, 

 by stopping the Horse's fore-feet with hot 

 horse-dung, for a couple (ff nights. You will 

 then have an opportunity of seeing the 

 effects. 



Thrushes are generally stopped with little 

 difficulty ; almost every astringent will stop the 

 Howing of thrush. I have known them stopped 

 with tincture of myrrh and tow ; but I should 

 not class this as a constitutional thrush but 

 merely a local disease ; and further. Horses, 

 seldom or never, with such thrush go lame, 

 until it be allowed to go on, and the inflam- 

 mation in consequence induces contraction. 

 Tar alone is a very good remedy for thrush. 

 I have in general used the followina: : — 



Calamine prepared 

 White vitriol - - 

 Tar - . - _ 



1 ounce. 

 I dram. 



M\\ well together; but before usins: it, the 

 frog should be well examined, and all the 



decayed parts, sinuses, or wherever t&e 

 (lisharge has maae its way, must all be 

 removed, so that the application may be 

 thorougiily applied ; it will also prevent a 

 farther harbour for dirt and moisture. The 

 whole frog must now be smeared well over 

 with the mixture ; then take a p'egit of tow, 

 and well charge it with the mixture ; then 

 take a small piece of wood, which should be 

 in your tar-pot, and force the tow to the bot- 

 tom of the cleft of the frog, and into every 

 other fissure or opening that may be, omitting 

 none ; the back part of the frog, where it joins 

 the heels, sometimes have cracks in, anoint 

 these also. To dress these feet neatly, great 

 care should be taken that the tow does not 

 hang out, as it may catch upon objects, and 

 become drawn out ; but to prevent this more 

 effectually, take a good sized piece of tow, 

 and place over the frog, and fasten it with two 

 thin pieces of wood, laid across each other. 

 If the case be a bad one, you must renew 

 your dressing every day ; but should it not be 

 so, every second day ; always observing the 

 stoppage of tow, to prevent dirt and moisture 

 getting in. 



When a Horse is affected with thrush, in 

 no case turn him out ; for the night-dews, 

 besides other liabilities to come in contact 

 with moisture would inevitably undo all yoti 

 have been doing. Hunters, that have what is 

 called a summer's run at grass, rarely come 

 up to stable, but some of them have got 

 thrush, evidently from the moisture. The 

 groom, probably, thinks this but of little im- 

 portance at the time, though coming into a 

 warm stable, &c., with such an affection, 

 proves in a very short time that the founda- 

 tion of contraction is laid. 



A great many will assert, on this accouut, 



