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in any remedy but absolute rest ; and even after 

 months of quiet, I have great doubts whether 

 severe strains, accompanied as they often are, by 

 a fracture of some Hgament, admit of a permanent 

 cure. In the early stages, an emollient poultice 

 of hnseed and bran should be applied to strains of 

 the leg, whatever part of it may be injured, and 

 the horse's diet should be changed. If by this 

 treatment the horse apparently recovers the use of 

 the limb without pain, the high-heeled shoe may 

 be removed, but he should not be put to work for 

 some weeks ; he should be turned into a loose box, 

 ur a straw yard, and indeed this should be done in 

 every serious case of local injury or internal disease. 

 These general hints may assist a man in direct- 

 ing, or at least superintending, the care of a sick 

 horse in doubtful hands ; but I only offer them as 

 deserving attention in this extreme case, for, vary- 

 ing the proverb a little, when a man is his own 

 farrier, his horse has a fool for his master. 



