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which now becomes necessary, 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 dress- 

 ing of tar, or of Friar's balsam, be applied as before 

 directed ; and if inflammation is again discovered, aj*- 

 ply a poultice ; should the growth of horn be found too 

 luxurient, continue the tar. 



STRAIN OF THE COFFIN-JOINT. 



Symjjtoms. — Sudden lameness, that is always increas- 

 ing, and has scarcely an intermission, without any ap- 

 pearance to acoount for it on the limb; and the persons 

 who permit - the horse to incur this disorder by their 

 carelessness, seldom have the candor to acknowledge 

 that they know the cause to be a tread, a rolling 

 stone, or a stumble, and the doctor is left lo "find it 

 out." Almost every one imagines the I&meness to re- 

 side higher up, as in the shoulder or the hip joint. — 

 Great heat and tenderness of the part soon come on ; 

 the latter symptom may be ascertained by striking the 

 hoof in front with a key or small stone, when the ani- 

 mal will flinch considerably more than when the corres- 

 ponding foot is struck in the same manner. When the 

 horse would stand at ease, he usually does so with the 

 toe pointing forwards, so as to keep the pastern in a 

 straight line with the back sinew and ligaments ; the in- 

 flammation shortly after reaches the upper part of the 

 sinew, as may be ascertained by passing the hand down 

 over it, when the patient flinches. 



Cure. — Bhstering at the coronet and fetlock repeat- 

 edly will reduce the inflammation within. A poultice 

 covering the whole foot, also tends to the same eflfect, 

 which will be further assisted by paring the sole, if it be 

 not already too thin; reduce the frog also, and do the 

 same to the corresponding foot. Formerly they pared 

 the toe tolerably close, and bled it there, by making a 

 longitudinal incision ; the usual application of tar, &c., 

 then complete the cure. But this is an operation that 

 is seldom performed with suflicient exactness, the in- 

 cision being too often made unwisely deep, so that oth- 

 er diseases were thus generated at some future day. — 



