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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



saturated with it, large enough to cover atlected parts, warm 

 and apply the salve. Place also a good linen, handage around 

 the coronet and under tlie heels, so as to hold the dressing 

 firmly to the atfected parts, and heat in well with a warm iron. 

 Stand the foot in the soaking tuh filled Vv'ith warm water six 

 inches deep, for one or two hours, and afterward use the soak- 

 ing swahs around the pasterns and foot. Keep well wet with 

 warm water for a few days, or until the soreness disappears. 



• This shoe is designed for (juarter crack, where neither toe 

 nor heel calkins are required. This treatment I have used with 

 unvarying success in the case of speed horses that have bsen 

 driven over liard tracks 

 and roads. If horses' 

 feet are kept }>roperly 

 balanced, the wall pliable 

 and flexible, and the hoof 

 shod with shoes suited to 

 the work required, there 

 will be little danger of 

 quarter crack. The treat- 

 ment is as follows : In 

 old, long-standing cases, 

 one side of the wall will 

 overlap the other. In 

 such instance, remove all 

 the fractured and loose 

 wall as deep as the podo- 

 phyllous tissues. Be care- 

 ful not to draw blood. 

 The shoe is set down to 

 half its thickness in front 

 of the crack, being grad- 



alK^ drawn thinner as the 



A, A, "Wall removed under crack. B, 



heel is approached. Then Quarter crack 



Fig. 115. side view of hoof prepared, 

 bala>xed, axdshod for quarter crack, 

 where no toe nor heel calkins are 

 required. 



