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TREATMENT OF POUNDER OR LAMINITIS 



Apply Save-the-Hoi'se from I/2 i^ch above to 1/2 ii^ch below the 

 hair line entirely around the coronary band at top of foot, as 

 directed on the bottle. 



While the main dependence in the treatment of this disease lies 

 in the action of Save-the-Horse, which acts to establish renewed 

 circulation in the hoof and to expand and grow a new foot, yet 

 properly caring for the foot in the following manner is of great 

 importance. 



Prepare a wide webbed fore shoe of sufficient length to assure 

 a good ground surface; drill and tap out shoe for Neverslip 

 calks ; set the shoe. Prepare a piece of boiler plate to completely 

 cover shoe ; drill holes in this plate where the neverslip calks are 

 to go through into the shoe. Then smear the bottom of the f(^t 

 with Save-the-Horse Ointment, pack with oakum, put plate in 

 position on the shoe and screw in the neverslip calks. The oakum 

 should fill the foot completely and the plate press it in place, in 

 this way support is given the sole. 



The plate should be removed and the foot repacked every three 

 weeks if possit)le ; the Neverslip calks permit of doing this with- 

 out removing the shoe each time, but the shoe should be taken 

 off and the foot made level as often as necessary. 



NAVICULAR OR COFFIN JOINT LiiMENESS 



To allow Save-the-Horse to do its quickest and best work the 

 foot must be softened. The foot is usualy dry and hard in con- 

 sequence of the fevered condition of the internal structures ; this 

 must and can be overcome. 



Soak the foot for an hour each day in a tub of water, or wind 

 a sack about the foot and keep it moist for an hour or more each 

 day; or use Felt Soaking boots; another very satisfactory way 

 is to pad the foot with sole leather and pack with a sponge di- 

 vided — a half put on either side of the frog; the sponge to be 

 moistened twice daily by pouring water in at the heel ; the leather 

 should be riveted to the shoe near the heel to avoid sagging and 

 to prvent dirt from entering. If the leather pad and sponge are 

 used avoid any great amount of frog pressure. 



Then Save-the-Horse should be applied at the junction of hoof 

 and skin, beginning at the heels and extending clear around the 

 coronary band, from I/2 ii^ch below the hair line. Make applica- 

 tion as directed on the bottle. 



After the foot has become softened it should be trimmed lightly at 

 the heel and as much taken off from the bottom at the toe as it will 

 safely stand and shoe with an open shoe of good width. Have the 

 surface of the shoe that comes next to the foot, from the last nail hole 

 back and including the heels, beveled in such a manner that the inside 

 Of the shoe Is higher and slopes to the outside, corresponding with the 



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