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lower pasterns. Keep the swabs on pastern and around the 

 foot as long as there is fever around the coronet band. By fol- 

 lowing the above instructions I have never failed to make a 

 permanent cure in feet affected with broken bars. This opera- 

 tion must be performed by a competent and skillful farrier. 



Lameness and Diseases of the Foot. — One of the most 

 common yet painful disorders of the foot is a separated wall 



at the coronet, which may 

 result from any sharp in- 

 strument, such as a wire 

 fence, the calkin of the 

 opposite shoe, or a raised 

 clinch of the nail. This 

 ii) ■ may result in a fissure or 



crack in the w^all, which 

 will become permanent as 

 the wall grows down, or 

 it may cause a wide sepa- 

 ration at the coronet. 



The treatment should 

 never involve the paring 

 away the wall at the coro- 

 net, but on the contrary 

 at the ground surface of 

 the wall immediately be- 

 FiG. 77. ■ low the injury, as shown 



in Fig. 77. Then place 

 the shoe on the foot, having four or more nairlToles immediately 

 below the ground surface thus pared away, and draw them up 

 gradually — first tapping one, then another — till the wall is 

 drawn down to the shoe, and the pressure at the coronet is 

 relieved. In order to do this efi'ectively, the hoof should be 

 softened bv standins: in warm water a sufficient length of time. 



