440 FRUSH. 



a very useful and efficacious dressing for frushes, and one of 



general application, is the following : — 



Take of Verdigris ^iss 



Alum Jss 



Vinegar Jss 



Treacle Jiv 



The first two ingredients being separately powdered and subse- 

 quently mixed together, the vinegar is to be poured upon them, 

 and afterwards the treacle, and the whole well stirred and incor- 

 porated. The mixture is then to be simmered, for ten minutes, 

 over a dull fire or in a water-bath, and kept constantly stirred 

 the while it is simmering. 



For ordinary frush, some simple dressing or this ointment — 

 which is characteristically coWed /rush ointment — will suffice. 

 The latter is likewise an excellent resource after we have done the 

 required execution with the escharotic applications. The grand 

 considerations in the treatment of frush, after all, however, are, 

 as I stated before, to look to the restoration of the functions of 

 the frog, and to take special care to guard it from wet and dirt ; 

 since there are no greater enemies than these to the healing and 

 well-doing of all diseases of the secretory tissues of the foot. 

 And these precautions are not only necessary during treatment, 

 but become requisite to be continued for some time after cure, in 

 order to ward off relapse : for relapse, in the case of long- 

 standing and habitual frush, is but too likely to happen. Nor 

 does any measure we can put in practice more completely and 

 wholesomely effect the principal of these objects, viz. the return 

 of healthy action to the frog, any thing like to the same degree 

 as the shoeing with tips. It is really quite surprising what a 

 salutary metamorphosis the contracted and frushed foot, or the 

 foot that has been frushed, in a few months undergoes under 

 the operation of tips. It no longer remains like the same foot ; 

 neither does it any longer possess the same liability to become 

 disordered*. 



* It may be useful here to remark, that the preferable mode of apply- 

 ing gutta percha as a substitute for leathern sole, is, by way of prepara- 

 tive, to warm the hoof first in hot water, and then to stick the softened 

 gutta percha to the sole and frog by means of the " solution of gutta percha." 

 The surfaces intended to adhere must previously be wiped quite dry. 



