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ficult of access, core them out with corrosive sublimate 

 or arsenic plug. Where foot is strong, no shoe is needed ; 

 if weak or broken, bar shoe relieves pressure. In very 

 bud cases diseased textures must be excised. Blister cor- 

 onet to promote reparative action. 



FALSE QUARTER 



Results from quittor more than from any other cause. 

 It may, however, be caused by injury or disease of any 

 kind destroying the coronary 'substance, on the integrity 

 of which the integrity of the wall depends. In the same 

 way that injury at the root of man's nails causes divis- 

 ion, will injury of the coronary substance cause a groove 

 in the hoof. Hence the name. Its appearance is that of 

 a gap. The gap is covered with a thin layer of soft horn, 



Fig. 10. False Quarter. 



Fig. 71. Remedy for False 

 Quarter. 



which sometimes splits and bleeds. Dirt or squeezing of 

 the internal parts sometimes causes inflammation, pus, 

 and lameness. If the fissure remains sound, however, no 

 inconvenience follows. False quarter may be palliated, 

 but not cured. 



Remedy.— Restore secretory function of coronary band. 

 Dress and promote healing of any wounds in band. Press- 

 ure should generally be applied and dead horn trimmed 

 away. Bar shoe to relieve concussion. Fill cracks with 

 gutta-percha to keep out dirt. Blisters to coronet some- 

 times useful. 



