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where the extravasated blood has not yet soaked through, or 

 become inspissated and dried. Should this be found to be the 

 case, the paring must be suspended, and the foot, after being 

 immersed in a warm bath, be dressed with some astringent or 

 mild escharotic — such as a solution of alum or the sulphate of 

 copper — for a day or two, which will dry the corn up before 

 the shoe be re-applied. The paring of the corn being com- 

 pleted, it is mostly advisable to uniformly thin the remaining 

 parts of the sole as well, which will likewise tend to give ease ; 

 though in the case of the flat foot but very little, or perhaps 

 no such reduction of substance may be called for. 



The Shoe proper for a Foot with Corns must be made 

 to serve the purpose of protection to the corn- pi ace, while it 

 bears upon parts of the hoof which in nowise, either directly or 

 indirectly, communicate pain or uneasiness to the corn from the 

 pressure they receive from it. A shoe may not positively press 

 upon the corn-place, and yet occasion tenderness or lameness by 

 bearing upon the junction of the wall and bar at a time when 

 these parts are not in a condition, from their contiguity to the 

 corn, in the sensitive state it is left in after being pared, to 

 endure it. At the same time, a shoe, though it have no offensive 

 bearing, is faulty unless it be so shaped that it defend the corn- 

 place from contusion or other injury, from stones, gravel, dirt, 

 &c. Providing there be solidity and thickness and depth of 

 wall enough to give it firm bearing, I know of no shoe better 

 adapted to answer our purpose than Plomley's broad- webbed 

 one, made flat upon the foot-surfaces of the heels, or, if required, 

 chambered out there. This shoe will afford the broadest cover 

 and protection, and at the same time take such flat and solid 

 bearing upon the heels as will render it impossible for the corn- 

 place to sustain any pressure from it in the course of the limited 

 time — say three or at most four weeks — any shoe ought to re- 

 main on a foot with corns. But when the heels of the hoof are 

 weak and low, not projecting perhaps beyond the frog, while 

 that body remains sound and prominent, a bar-shoe is to be pre- 

 ferred This shoe will, by taking a bearing upon the frog, not 

 only save the heels from wear, but at the same time tend much 



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