PEET OF THE HORSE AND THEIB DISEASES. 



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Prevention. — Avoid pounding the clip of the shoe into the toe, but cut 

 away a little of the wall to form a hollow place for it. 



DIAGRAM OF SHOE. 



Showing clip that is 

 hammered into the toe, 

 sometimes causing 

 seedy toe. 



VIEW OF A FOOT. 



Showing toe pared to receive the 

 clip to avoid seedy toe. 



V. Pricking from Nails. 



Causes. — Pricking may come from a nail running into the quick when 

 Bhoeing, or a nail may be picked up in the street. It is often dose by the 

 horse stepping on a piece of board containing a nail, and the nail is often 

 pulled right out again when he steps off the board, or the nail may be 

 broken off inside. 



How to know it. — Sudden lameness will tell you that something serious 

 is wrong. Pull off the shoe and examine the foot carefully. If one of 

 the shoe-nails has punctm-ed the quick, it will be moist and black. If a 

 nail is found anywhere in the foot, pull it out carefully, so as not to break 

 it off. If it should be broken off, pare away the hoof around it, and get 

 hold of it with nippers and pull it out. 



The lameness will be greater or less, according to the amount of injury 

 done ; if the nail wounds the tendon, that plays over the navicular joint 

 in the foot, or pierces the navicular joint, the 

 lameness will be very great, long continued and 

 sometimes permanent. In many of these cases 

 there is high fever, great pain, restlessness, blow- 

 ing, redness of eyes, and the horse will not lie 

 down. He wnll paw or continuously raise the 

 foot. There will be loss of appetite in some cases, 

 and not in others ; the flanks will be tucked up, 

 and every evidence of intense pain will be shown, 

 especially if the wound is in the hind foot, and 

 more especially if the navicular joint is punctured, pricking from nails. 

 In that case there will be a discharge of joint oil, showing the shoe partly nuiied oft 

 a yellowish watery matter, which clots like blood '^t^fi^VitriTJ^lr' "'''"'' 

 aooQ after runnimr out. When dressing it, you will find clots of yellow- 



