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tub will do — ^you can make a shift with palls, though It 

 may take two men to keep the horse standing in them. 

 The water should come nearly up to his knees. After 

 this soaking the feet should be poulticed with bran and 

 hot water, the poultices changed as they cool, and kept 

 on for several hours. The poultices should then be 

 taken off for a few hours, but renewed, and kept on 

 most of the time for several days. 



Internally the horse should be given from ten to 

 twenty drops — = according to his size and the degree of 

 fever — of tincture of aconite in a pint of water. This 

 should be given two or three times at intervals of four 

 hours. He might also be given one tablespoonful of 

 saltpeter or two ounces of sweet spirits of nitre. As 

 soon as the patient will take any food he should be 

 given a bran mash, and he should have nothing but 

 hay and bran mashes for several days. Great care 

 should be taken the first time that he Is shod, and 

 especially must he be shod so as to protect the wall and 

 sole, and. In most cases, to give frog-pressure.^ He 

 should be worked lightly for some time, and his feet 

 examined every day, and measures taken to cool and 

 soften them In case they become feverish or hard. He 

 should be reshod every four weeks. 



NAVICULAR DISEASE 



Navicular disease Is often supposed to be founder, 

 and vice versa. 



Navicular disease Is a decay of the navicular or 

 shuttle bone. This Is a small, queerly shaped bone at 



1 See page 95. 



