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But, as to drawing the sole, as before recommended 

 generally, there is one exception; if Jhe lameness and 

 other symptoms come on after an inflammatory fever 

 of the whole system, then we ought to look upon it as 

 an effect of the fever seeking to throw off its dregs 

 thus critically ; and a swelling and discharge at the 

 coronet may be expected lo take place that should be 

 encouraged, and treated as simple abscess, not fistulous. 

 ^Vhen this is the case, the bar-shoe is better adapted 

 to keep the parts in position, that the discharge may 

 proceed temperately. 



In default of sending the sick horse to the meadow, 

 he may be allowed to stand on a clay-made floor in an 

 outhouse by day, or any slip of soft ground ; but by no 

 means adopt the plan of putting the patient upon litter 

 that is damp, and is therefore half rotten and heating. 

 A number of contrivances for affording coolness and 

 natural pressure to the sole or frog, besides the forego- 

 ing, have been resorted to, and among these the ad- 

 mixture of vinegar, a'egar, verjuice, or solution of - 

 nitre with clay, with the stopping, &c., are well calcu- 

 lated to answer the purposes intended. Rubbing the 

 knees with turpentine is also serviceable. 



Physic should not of course be neglected at the 

 early stages of lameness, adapted to the previous state 

 of the patient's bodily health, and calculated to lower 

 the access of inflammation, which so much pain must 

 naturally produce. Either of the three evacuations 

 being suppressed, or imperfectly performed, must be 

 restored, and a purgative, a urine ball, or a diaphoretic 

 powder be administered as occasion requires, and op- 

 portunity presents itself; of course, neither of those 

 will be given while the animal is out of doors. Recipes 

 will be found in preceding pages. 



RECIPES 



USED WITH SUCCESS IN VARIOUS PARTS 

 OF THE COUNTRY. 



In the preceding pages, we have been particular in 

 giving the most correct information that is known at 

 the present day in Europe or America, in relation to 



