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direction of the shoe. There can be but little 

 doubt but that corns are mainly owing to the feults 

 of shoeing, as well as to the fact of shoeing itself, 

 however well performed, preventing the due ex- 

 pansion of the horn when the sole is growing 

 downward. The treatment of this disease, like 

 all others, and the diseases of the foot in particu- 

 lar, must be begun by removing the cause. The 

 first thing to do with a corn is to remove the 

 shoe and pare out the corn ; do not cut the bars 

 or heels ; pare the corn until it will bend under 

 the pressure of the finger. Veterinary surgeons 

 adopt different modes of treatment of corns, but 

 the writer, after many experiments, has adopted 

 the following with great success ; sometimes from 

 continual pressure upon the heels by a bad-made 

 shoe, or by neglect in not having the horse's 

 shoes taken off at proper intervals, the corn, or 

 the foot between the horn and the heel and the 

 bars, will become festered; if in paring out the 

 corn matter is observed, open the sole to allow 

 of free suppuration, then poultice the foot with 

 warm linseed meal for two or three days ; after 

 the suppuration has ceased dip a piece of cotton 

 wool into carbolised oil {strength^ five parts oil 

 to one of acid)j and insert it into the hole in the 

 foot; in a few days the foot will have become 

 sound, and by good shoeing and care the corn 

 will cease to trouble, as we have set up a healthy 

 reaction of the foot. If the corn is only of the 

 ordinary kind, after the horn has been pared 

 away, hold up the foot and pour a small quantity 

 of muriatic acid upon the corn, keep the foot up 



