562 ON THE FEET. 



legs afterwards long continued gentle fric- 

 tions. Stop the feet with pledgets of tow 

 dipped in the warm mixture of turpentine, 

 linfeed oil, and camphorated fpirits ; and bind 

 the hoofs round with flannel dipped in the 

 fame mixture. Thefe meafures muft be per- 

 fevered in flriQly three times a day, until the 

 condenfed and ftagnated humours are rendered 

 fufficiently fluid for circulation, when the over- 

 fl:retched velfels being difl^urdened of their 

 fuperfluous contents, may be refl;ored to their 

 proper tone by reftringent applications. Walk- 

 ins: exercife in the meantime will be beneficial, 

 but it mufl: be in a dry and warm place, and the 

 greatefl: care taken that the feet be not wetted, 

 and the horfe fliould be led, not ridden. When 

 the inflammation fliall have fubfided, and the 

 proper feeling of the feet have returned, mea- 

 fures direftly oppofite to the foregoing mufl: be 

 adapted. Wafli the feet in urine and vinegar, 

 firft blood-warm, afterwards cold ; bathe the 

 legs with the reftringent embrocation, lead 

 abroad daily, and prepare by degrees for the 

 only effeftual reftoratives, grafs, and the dew 

 of heaven. Thefe meafures failing, recourfe 

 muft be had to the operation prefcribed in the 

 chronic cafe. The old farriers, and St. Bel 

 after them, remarked that a foundered horfe, 

 by way of eafing the tenfion and pain in his 

 legs and feet, would place himfelf upon his 



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