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When curb is forming rest is the first essential of 

 treatment. 



CORNS 



Horses that work on limestone roads are more 

 subject to corns than those which travel over gravel ; 

 but I was not prepared to hear they are in some 

 measure periodical. The smith, however, who shoes 

 my horses, shoes about two hundred post and coach 

 horses ; and he assures me that numbers of them 

 are affected at particular times, and at others they are 

 comparatively free from them. " Very wet roads," 

 he says, " are one exciting cause." 



If we examine the right hand of any hard-working 

 mechanic, we shall find what exactly corresponds 

 with our idea of a com. The cuticle of the palm 

 (as in the case with the heel or the sole of the foot) 

 grows morbidly thick by the effect of external pressure ; 

 but this is in reality a different disease from what has 

 been so named in the horse's foot. In nine out of 

 every ten horses affected with corns, it is the inner 

 quarter of the sole of the fore-foot that is the seat 

 of corn, i.e. the bruise. If recent it is reddish, but 

 if older, greenish black. It may suppurate. 



The following recipe was given me by a very old 

 sportsman, who assured me of its utility : — 



Venice turpentine, half a pound. 

 Tar, half a pint. 

 White rosin, one ounce. 

 Burgundy pitch, one ounce. 



^ Any kind of bruise to the horny sole is liable to produce a 

 corn, and when such is present, it is looked upon by veterinary 

 surgeons as sufficient ground for rejection during examination of a 

 horse as to soundness. — Editor. 



