Local Diseases. 31 



Treatment 



Cut away loose horn, insert hoplemuroma or tar, with plug 

 of hemp. If very bad, first poultice. Keep foot dry and 

 clean, let frog grow, and use bar-shoe for a month. 



Try poultice to soften horn, then cut away all diseased part, and 

 apply strongest solution of carbolic acid or blue vitriol, sole 

 being covered with hard pad. Don't expect a good cure. 



Remove shoe, poultice, then pare away corn gently, and apply 

 hoplemuroma or chloride of zinc. Use a bar-shoe for two 

 months, with cavity opposite the corn. 



Very wearisome, three months at least. Send to Veterinary Sur- 

 geon if possible. Remove shoe, poultice all over foot, open 

 sole to let out matter. Squirt in car boh c acid. Blister sole. 

 When wound looks healthy, use hoplemuroma or turpentine 

 ointment, and get sole pressure. 



Squirt warm water and sonpsuds (or use sponge if not too tender) 

 several times a day. Afterwards ^eep it clean as a preventive. 



If slight, treat with marigold ointment. If very bad and slough- 

 ing, a piece of the penis can be easily cut off by a Veterinary 

 Surgeon. 



If in foot, squirt in strong carbolic acid, or rub in dry calomel, 

 imtil insects disappear, then treat for thrush. 



If anywhere else, use carbolic acid, or juice of custard-apple leaf, 

 or one part of oil of ti.rpentine mixed with three parts of olive 

 oil, or equal parts of spirits of turpentine and olive oil. 



