ON THE FEET. 549 



going mixture, or fal ammoniac in campho- 

 rated fpirits. Bind a piece of thin (heet lead, 

 or card, upon the part. Drefs once a day. 

 See Wounds. 



The San DC RACK, called by the French, 

 Seime, is a cleft in the hoof, either up and 

 down, or with the grain, in which latter cafe 

 it is much eaheft cured. The caufe is drynefs 

 of the hoof, either natural or accidental, and 

 the malady (hould be prevented by thofe liable 

 meafures of ablution, cold or warm, already 

 treated on at large. Should the cleft be con- 

 fiderable, at no rate work the horfe, but let 

 him walk abroad in a light bar-fhoe with the 

 hoof bound up, and occafionally attended to. 

 Cut the edges fmooth with a knife, that the 

 horn may not prefs the tender parts ; wafh 

 clean with warm fuds, and drefs with tinfture 

 of myrrh, applying tow dipped in the tinfture ; 

 bind fall with lift, and tarred rope-yarn. In 

 cafe of hoUownefs under the Seime, and con- 

 fequent danger to the griftle or ligament, it is 

 recommended by Gibfon to fire with irons 

 moderately heated : of this operation I have 

 had no experience. 



Corns, (p. 208, Vol. I.) La FolTe, fo at- 

 tached to fub-divifions, has improved upon 

 Solleyfel, by making five inftead of three 

 fpecies of Bleime : In fa 61 there are two, the 

 natural and accidental ; the one occafioned by 



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