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Sometimes this disease attacks the inner and outer quarters, and 

 I have operated on chronic cases where excrescences had been 

 thrown up over the diseased parts Hke finger stumps, standing 

 out from one-fourth to three-fourths inches, and by this burning 

 process have permanently cured them. Give the horse a hot 

 water foot bath for three hours after burning, and as the open 

 state of cells of foot after these operations develops granulations 

 very rapidly, this burning and soaking treatment must be kept 

 up daily until entirely cured. This treatment is not as severe 

 or painful as it appears, as the horse does not jerk away under 

 it. Do not poultice the foot, but let it remain open, and keep 

 the horse quiet in a dry stall. 



Foot Rot, or Seedy Toe.— This insidious dssease occurs 

 sometimes in the toe, and at other times around the inner or 

 outer quarters of the foot. It manifests itself by a wasting 

 away or drying up of the sensitive lamina, and in slight attacks 

 may be easily cured, as the horse seemingly does not at once go 

 lame, seemingly requiring some little time to develop into a 

 condition of lameness. When it becomes aggravated, however, 

 and involves toe and quarters, it is disabling, and requires care- 

 ful treatment. I have treated some very stubborn cases, where 

 a complete separation of wall and vascular parts had taken 

 place, extending almost from ground surface to coronet, and 

 where only one and a half to two inches of solid horn re- 

 mained. In such cases I removed all the separated parts of the 

 wall as far as the disease extended, fairly uncovering the coffin 

 bone. I then made a wide webbed, deeply concave shoe to 

 cover around toe and quarters ; thence gradually narrowing it 

 to the heels, with a good wide bar across to get strong frog 

 pressure ; three nail holes to be placed on each side at the heels, 

 'Next I pulled a clip on each side of the quarters and at front 

 toe, making the clips very long, bent up at the same angle as 



