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the " place where they were confined being," as he himself 

 states, •' particularly wet." 



Frush is only on rare Occasions attended with 

 Lameness. — Horses having frushes — and the exceptions, in a 

 general way, are not numerous — appear to go, and to do their 

 work as well, with as without them : hence, the little or no at- 

 tention paid to them, and the unscrupulousness with which one 

 person sells or purchases a horse known to have frushes. Still, 

 there are occasions on which lameness proceeds from frushes. 

 A frushed horse may, at such times as he happens to step with 

 his frog upon a stone, "drop." This, however, is but momentary, 

 and probably occurs but rarely. Nothing is more likely to pro- 

 duce lameness from frushes than a sharp dressing. The horse 

 is taken, perhaps, to be shod, going as well as usual ; but returns 

 quite lame or tender-footed. The farrier is discovered to have 

 used some sharp dressing to his frushy frogs, and all is accounted 

 for. Dealers are very fond of mentioning as a cause of lameness 

 the existence of a frush should a horse they are selling hap- 

 pen to go lame or tender, when, all the while, they know or 

 ought to know better. Frush in its worst stages will at times 

 occasion lameness, and severe lameness too, simply from ex- 

 posure to tread of the sensitive parts of the frog. As a general 

 rule, however, frushes are not to be reckoned among the causes of 

 lameness, and hence are not accounted as unsoundness. 



The Treatment of Frush — supposing it be deemed re- 

 quisite or worth while to adopt any treatment at all — is to be 

 regarded in two points of view : either the horse is intended 

 to continue his work the while, or he is suffered to be laid up 

 as a patient. Hundreds and thousands of horses having frushes 

 — running frushes — are doing their work as though their feet 

 were perfectly sound, and no heed whatever is taken of them ; 

 save, perhaps, that some of them may have their frogs pared and 

 " dressed" every time they happen to be fresh shod ; though 

 in general they derive little benefit therefrom, owing to the in- 

 judicious and clumsy manner in which such dressings are per- 

 formed. A leading principle in the treatment of frush neces- 

 sarily is, or ought to be, the restoration, to the extent we are 



