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observation and trial I diagnose as incurable, I 

 advise to be put out of their miserable state." 

 Such is the opinion of Professor Gamgee upon 

 this terrible disease. 



COENS. 



This is another complaint of the feet of the 

 horse, and though it has but a simple name, yet 

 it is a painful and troublesome disease. And 

 those of my readers who are troubled with them 

 can sympathize with the horse when it is afflicted 

 with corns. This disease in the foot of the horse 

 has acquired a name which but ill expresses its 

 nature. It bears but little affinity to corns of 

 the human foot ; instead of being hard as in the 

 human subject they are thin and very weak, and 

 caused by pressure on the sole at the angle of the 

 bars of the feet, the horn becomes more spongy 

 and soft than at other parts, and it is so sensi- 

 tive that upon the slightest pressure the horse 

 indicates that he feels pain. When the foot 

 becomes contracted, that portion of the sole in- 

 tervening between the external crust which is 

 wiring in, and the bars which oppose that con- 

 traction are squeezed very severely, which induces 

 inflammation, and hence it is that feet that are 

 contracted are almost always subjects that are 

 afflicted with corns. The effects of this pressure 

 induce a small quantity of extravasated blood, 

 and the horn being secreted in less quantities 

 and being more spongy it has a tendency to in- 

 close in it a portion of the extravasated blood. 



