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duces lameness and causes a horse to undergo very 

 excruciating pain. The first step necessary lor a 

 horse's rehef is, to have his shoes taken off and get 

 the stone out. You may readily ascertain where they 

 lie, by pressing the edge of the hoof with a pair of 

 pincers. After all the gravel is removed, which may 

 be known by a discontinuation of the blackness of the 

 place, the wound caused by cutting for the gravel may 

 be easily healed by melting together equal parts of 

 bees- wax, rosin, fresh butter or sweet oil, and pouring 

 the mixture on the wound, warm as the animal can 

 bear it, without giving pain. Then warm a little tar 

 or pitch, and pour a small quantity over the wound 

 and its neighbouring parts, to keep out the dust and 

 defend the foot from any hard substance for a few 

 days, by which time it will get well. 



— Me^O'M— 



WOUNDS. 



A WOUND is generally defined a separation of the 

 parts in any member of the animal body by some 

 instrument. In all fresh w^ounds made by cutting 

 instruments, there is nothing more required than bring- 

 ing the lips of the wound into contact, by sewing a 

 bandage, provided the part will allow of it. For 

 wounds of the hips, or other prominent parts, and 

 across some of the large muscles, the stitches are apt 

 to burst by the horse's lying down and getting up in 

 the stall. In such cases the lips of the wound snould 

 not be brought close together — one stitch is enough 



