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fat pickled pork, just out of the brine, cut in long, thin slices 

 and pressed well into the sore spot and into the commissures. 

 The inflammation will be relieved if the foot, when thus packed, 

 is placed in warm water for at least two hours, keeping up the 

 temperature as hot as the hand can bear. 



If speed is required while the horse is under treatment, the 

 rolling motion shoe (Fig. 125), on page 235, may be used ; or, 

 .if the action is already too high, the scooprtoe shoe (Fig. 121, 

 page 232) can be substituted. 



When the weight is thrown, by reason of a too high or long 

 toe, unduly upon the flexor 

 tendon, the result in violent 

 action shows itself in either 

 an inflamed flexor tendon 

 or a complete let-down. In 

 the latter case the usefulness 

 of the horse is at an end, 

 but in tlie former, remedial 

 treatment, accompanied with 

 absolute rest, insures a per- 

 fect cure. The tendon bows 

 out as shown in Fig. 91. 

 The foot should be dressed 

 as shown in the illustration, 

 and a prepared surgeon's 

 bandage, wrung out in witch 

 hazel, applied as therein 

 shown, after the limb has 

 been thoroughly bathed in 

 the same preparation. 



After the leg has thus 

 been bandaged moderately 

 tight, the foot should be 

 fihod with the four- calkin 



Fig. 91. 



FOOT PROPERLY PARED BEFORE 

 BEING SHOD. 



