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RUNNING THRUSH. 



Running Thrush, in horses, is an ulcerated or varicous 

 state of the frog, attended with a discharge of acrid 

 corrosive ichor, which sometimes quite destroys it. This 

 complaintis generally occasioned by inattention, and in 

 Its earliest stages is by no means hsrrd to be cured. In 

 all cases it will be prudent, and even necessary, to pare 

 away as much as possible of the diseased parts, and 

 wash away any filth that may be lodged on the adjoin- 

 ing ones, with a lather of soft soap and water, after 

 which the feet should be constantly stopped with cow- 

 dung, or something of a similar nature. Should the 

 complaint not give way to this treatment, there may be 

 reason to apprehend that it is owing to a vitiated state 

 of the fluids, in which case a few doses of alterative 

 physic may be useful ; but, perhaps, turning the horse 

 out to grass for a month or two, if the season admits 

 thereof, is by far the best method of attempting the cure. 



CORNS. 



Causes. — An entire series of disorders, as canker, 

 sand-crack, corn, and founder, may be referred to the 

 same original causes ; namely, a heated or inflammatory 

 state of the blood, which accident may concur to bring 

 forward in one or other form, according to circumstances. 

 Distortion and undue pressure on the sensible sole 

 occasions that irritation which brings on inflammation of 

 its edge, where the shuttle-bone, or heel-hone, presses 

 down upon it at every step, and causes the utmost 

 bending that the minute elasticity of the hoof allows of; 

 but contraction of the heel, which accompanies hot, 

 brittle, and inelastic hoof, prevents its bending duly and 



