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play — if thin and tender, they will thus be freed from 

 pressure. The thick heel is most commonly affected, 

 and should be softened by an extensive poultice that is 

 to cover the whole foot, after the corn has been pared 

 and treated with butter of antimony. Tar is then a 

 very desirable application, or Friar^s balsam; and if 

 inflammation is again discovered, poultice the foot once 

 more. Fire is applied by some, but the hoof is per- 

 manently injured by the actual cautery ; and whatever 

 good is achieved is thus counterbalanced by the evil. 

 Vitriolic acid mixed, carefully^ with tar, in the propor- 

 tion of one-tenth of the former to nine-tenths of the latter, 

 will promote the absorption upon which the cure depends. 



But in some desperate bad cases the matter has already 

 formed within, most offensively, and discharges at the 

 coronet by means of that curious process of nature 

 which affords the coronet the material for forming new 

 horn to supply the wear and tear of the hoof. Upon 

 paring away the horny sole, which now becomes neces- 

 sary, the offensive matter will be found to have spread 

 itself underneath the sensible sole, which will ooze forth 

 and give immediate relief to the coronet. Let so much 

 of the horny sole as lies loose from the sensible sole be 

 pared away, and a dressing of tar, or of Friar's balsam, 

 be applied as before directed ; and if inflammation is again 

 discovered, apply a bread poultice; should the growth 

 of horn be found too luxuriant, discontinue the tar. 



Where it has been necessary to remove much of the 

 corn, the horse should be suffered to remain in a loose 

 place, or be turned out to grass until the horn is re- 

 generated. 



A FEVER.— A CURE. 



Would you know when a horse is in a fever ? There 

 is a pulse a little above the knee, in the inside of his leg, 



