iJUb IRliEAU OF ANIMAL INDUtiTKY. 



foot with flax.scod nioal, wot clay, or other like substances, or damp dirt 

 ,lh)ors or damp bedding of tanbark, <»-reasy hoof ointments, ete., are 

 all means which may be used to keep the feet from l)ecomin}4- too dr}' 

 and hard. 



As to the curative measures whicii are to be adopted nuich will 

 depend upon the extent of the injury. If the case is one of chronic 

 dry corn, with but slight lameness, the foot should be pt)ultieed for a 

 day or two and the discolored horn pared out, care bein<^ taken not to 

 injure the soft tissues. The heel on the atl'ected side is to be lowered 

 until all pressure is removed and, if the ])atient's labor is required, the 

 foot must be shod with a bar shoe or with one havino- stitl' lieels. Care 

 must be taken to reset the slioe before the foot has grown too long, else 

 the shoe will no longer rest on the wallj but on the sole and bar. 



I believe in cutting moist corns out. If there is inflammation pres- 

 ent, cold baths and poultices should be used; when the horn is well 

 softened and the fever allayed, pare out all of the diseased horn, lightly 

 cauterize the soft tissues beneath and poultice the foot for two or three 

 days. When the granulations look red, dress the wound with oakum 

 l)alls saturated in a weak solution of tincture of aloes or spirits of 

 camphor and apply a roller Iwudage. Change the dressing- every two 

 or three days until a iirm, healtliy layer of new horn covers the wound, 

 when the shoe may l)e put on, as in dry corn, and the patient returned 

 to work. 



In suppurative corns the loosened horn must be removed, so that 

 the pus may freely escape. It' the pus has worked a passage to the 

 coronar}" band and escapes from an opening between the band and 

 hoof, an opening must be made on the sole, and apld baths made 

 astringent with a little suli)hate of iron or copper art^^be used for a 

 day or tw^o. When the discharge becomes healthy, thfe nstulous tracts 

 may be injected daily with a weak solution of bichloride of mercury, 

 nitrate of silver, etc. , and the foot dressed as after operation for moist 

 corns. When complications arise the treatment must be varied to 

 meet the indications; if gangrene of the lateral cartilage takes place, 

 it must bo treated as directed under the head of caililaginous quittor; 

 if the velvety tissue is gangrenous, it must be cut away; if the coHin- 

 bone is necrosed, it must bo scrai)ed, and the resulting wounds treated 

 on general princii)les. After an}- of the operations for corns have 

 been performed, in which the soft tissues have been laid bare, it is 

 l)est to protect the foot by a sole of soft leather set beneath the shoe 

 when the animal is returned to work.- Only in rare instances are the 

 complications of corn so serious as to destro}- the life or usefulness of 

 the patient. It is the wude, flat foot with low heels and a thin wall 

 which is most liable to resist all efl'orts toward efl'ecting a complete 

 cure. 



