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to the parts a peculiar blood-shot appearance, and form what 

 have been mistaken for corns. The latter name has no 

 proper applicability, and seems to have been adopted simply 

 because none better was known. At any rate, it is the off- 

 spring of the prevalent ignorance concerning that condition 

 of the feet just described. 



Corns, so called, are nothing more than the soreness caused 

 by hoof rot — one development, or another edition, of that 

 disease. They belong to the same family, and have the same 

 pedigree, so to speak, as thrush, grease, foot evil, and narrow 

 heel. 



A more serious result of this diseased condition of the foot 

 sometimes occurs. The inflammation reaches within the 

 horny sole of the hoof, and ulceration takes place there. The 

 abscess thus formed forces a vent, sometimes through the 

 heel, but oftener through the coronary ring at the top of the 

 hoof. Here the disease assumes different phases. Sometimes 

 it runs into foot evil, and, extending entirely round the foot, 

 brings the hoof off altogether. When the abscess bursts 

 forth in the form of a running ulcer, it often rises and breaks 

 a number of times, and may continue discharging for months. 



TREATMENT. 



As the state of the feet whence corns proceed originates 

 from hoof- rot, the remedy must be the same as for that com- 

 plaint. Cure hoof rot and the corn will disappear. If an 

 abscess has not yet been formed, the corrosive liniment will 

 right matters without difficulty. Remove the shoe, and pare 

 the hoof down as far as can well be done. Pare down the 

 frog, also, and dig out all the chalky, pumiced hoof; then 

 apply the liniment to the heels and the bottoms of the feet, 

 using a hot iron to dry it in thoroughly. Repeat the appli- 

 cation five or six times ; but it -will not be necessary to use 

 the hot iron more than once in drying it in at the heels, 

 though at the bottoms several times. 



In the summer of 1866, the writer treated a case of corns 

 in a horse belonging to Mr. Early, of Petersburg, Boone 



