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times very difficult to heal, and which, when large, 

 takes off one or both hoofs^ which are never properly 

 replaced. It must, therefore, be considered as an ob- 

 ject of the first importance to restore the secretion and 

 discharge, without allowing a suppuration. This done, 

 the cure is effected ; and, since the course has been 

 followed, no bad case has occurred in a very consider- 

 able stock of cattle, and the men attending them are 

 quite familiar with the cure. If, from want of atten- 

 tion, or the violence of the attack, the gathering is 

 formed, and breaks, it must be treated like any other 

 tedious ulcer, and without any violent or harsh mea- 

 sures. 



The animal should be kept quiet, fed well, and occa- 

 sionally purged. As soon as the discharge has ceased, 

 a salve of the flower of zinc, and hog's lard appears 

 to be the best dressing. 



It cannot be too strongly impressed on the minds of 

 those who have the care of cattle that not a moment 

 is to be lost; and that the corrosive sublimate pro- 

 duces no other inconvenience than pain for a ^ew mi- 

 nutes, even if it should be applied in a case of lame- 

 ness, which afterwards proves to have arisen from 

 other causes. 



An account appeared last season, of the cure being 

 effected by cutting off the point of the hoof with a 

 chisel, till it bled considerably. Of the efficacy of 

 this remedy, no opinion is given, as it has never been 

 tried here ; but the impression is not favourable, as it 

 must occasion temporary lameness, and, in unskilful 

 hands, proves something more than temporary. 



All such barbarous modes of treatment as hair ropes 

 drawn backwards and forwards between the hoofs ; 

 hot irons ; cutting out the part affected, and pouring 

 into the wound, so made, hot pitch and other ingredi- 



