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sure to wear through the bag, the poultice falls 

 through, and the foot becoming dry, they do 

 more harm than good. Give physic, and in nine 

 cases out of ten the patient in a few days is 

 free from lameness. I then adopt a practice 

 recommended by Mr. Broad, of Star Street, 

 Edgware Eoad, London, upwards of thirty years 

 ago, and practised by him and his brother at 

 Bath with success up to the present time. It 

 consists in cutting a notch with a drawing-knife, 

 about half an inch from each side of the crack 

 as near the coronet as possible, and about a 

 quarter of an inch deep, sufficiently large to allow 

 the embedding of the head of small horse nails. 

 If the crack is long, cut two others an inch lower 

 down, then have a nail jorepared in the ordinary 

 way, with the exception that they are pointed on 

 the reverse side to prevent puncturing the quick, 

 a case of which I never had. !N'ever make a hole 

 with a pricker or bore it with a red-hot wire. 

 Before using, the nails are put into a vice and 

 the head hammered to form a shoulder, to pre- 

 vent it being driven too far into the wall and 

 breaking out the hold. After being driven care- 

 fully through the notches, a long clinch is left, 

 the crack is then drawn closely together with the 

 pincers, and all made smooth with the rasp to 

 prevent the nails being trodden out. Then with 

 the use of the bar-shoe, and a constant application 

 of cold water with a linen bandage round the 

 coronet, the hoof will soon grow sound, and in 

 course of time grow out. 



