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others severely. In the latter case the feet are in such a con- 

 dition as to require prompt attention, or a sloughing, or dis- 

 charge of matter, may take place, forming a sinus, or pipe-like 

 opening, through the quarter, sometimes passing through the 

 coronet, and producing a condition, or disease, known as 

 Quitter, which often terminates in permanent lameness and 

 deformity. -^ 



When the lameness is of a chronic character, the poor beast, 

 owing to his deprivation of speed, is compelled to suffer all 

 kinds of barbarous treatment, such as roweling, setoning, etc, 

 etc. As few believe corns to be of so serious a nature, the 

 most are ready to attribute the lameness to a disease, or a sup- 

 posed disease, which exists only in their disordered imagina- 

 tions. 



As symptomatic indications, it may be remarked that the 

 •horse extends one foot in advance of the other, and rests upon 

 the toe, which causes a bending of the knee, with a hard, dry, 

 brittle, and contracted hoof. 



By way of treatment, the hoof, around the corn should be 

 cut away so as to prevent pressure from the shoe ; the corn 

 should be well cut out, and burnt with a hot iron, butter of an- 

 timony, muriatic acid, caustic silver, or the permanganate of 

 potash. He should then be carefully shod, and, if the frog is 

 elastic, a bar shoe nicely fitted, with a perfectly level bearing, 

 would be best ; if, however, the frog is hard and unyielding, such 

 a shoe may prove injurious. Flaxseed poultices frequently ap- 

 plied to the feet, together with the use of hoof ointment, will 

 be found effectual ; a run at grass without shoes will also prove 

 beneficial. 



