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truly, and lateral pressure upon the quarter follows. 

 The sole being thus unduly pent up, the circulation is 

 obstructed in its passage to and from the cavity of the 

 coffin-bone, and a deposit of blood, which soon becomes 

 offensive matter, is the consequence. Bad shoeing, 

 whereby the heels are pinched, also when the ragged 

 hoof is left, which may have contained particles of sand, 

 will cause irritation, and end in corn, or jigg. 



Symptoms. — The mischief thus commenced within, 

 shows itself between the bar and the crust, or wall of 

 the hoof, in a foxy or dirty-red tumour, with greatly 

 increased heat. Lameness, in a degree proportioned to 

 the badness of the corn, is usually the first symptom 

 that directs our attention to the sole. Figg is but an- 

 other name for the same kind of corn when situated 

 close to the bar of the frog, a little farther back in the 

 hollow of the sole. Pain, very acute on the touch; 

 or, when the horse treads on a hard substance, he issues 

 a moan, or grunt : it is that sound in which his voice is 

 aptly likened to the complaint of the human sufferer. 



Cure. — Although oftentimes very troublesome, return- 

 ing again and again when the farrier apprehends he 

 has cured it radically, yet no affection is easier of a 

 partial remedy, or effected by more ordinary means. 

 Deceived by the name, perhaps, resembling the hard 

 excrescence called a corn on the human foot, they pro- 

 ceed at once to " pare the corn out to the quick, till the 

 blood starts ;" but they heedlessly put on the same shoe 

 upon the same thick heel and hard hoof which first 

 brought about the malady, and the lameness returns. 

 Let the heel of the shoe be cut off on the side that is 

 afflicted, or if both sides have corns, a bar shoe is re- 

 commended as giving pressure to the frog. The heels 

 are then to be rasped away free from any contact with 

 the shoe ; if they are thick and hard, this will give them 



