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should prefer no shoe at all ; or if tlie patient was shod 

 a la Charlier, I should leave him so. If I could spare 

 him, I should rest him ; if not, unless he was very lame 

 indeed, I should work him : with a curb horses are often 

 lame one day and sound another. I should apply 

 the cold lotion with the long name, keeping the 

 bandage on the right place by a piece of cloth, flannel, 

 &c., cut into strips at the sides, which strips are meant to 

 tie as strings, two above the hock, the others below, 

 leaving the point of the hock free. Next come corns. 

 Some horses are very subject to them when shod in the 

 common way. Horses with tips or Charlier shoes never 

 have them, as they are caused by the pressure of the shoe, 

 and these shoes do not approach the corn place. If the 

 horse be very lame, and the usual style of shoeing be 

 adopted, the most simple plan is to cut ofi* the inside 

 quarter of the shoe, and leave the inside heel bare. The 

 horse will then often go sound, and you will have a tip on one 

 side of his foot ; and observing this, and that no ill effects 

 occur, you may possibly arrive at the conclusion that with 

 a regular tip, and his foot level, instead of on one side, 

 your horse might go better still. When tips are worn, 

 of course the sole and frog must be left in a state of 

 nature, and neither they nor the heels will wear away too 

 fast. Horses will go short in tips at first, of course. A 

 suppurating corn is a case for the vet., so I will offer no 

 suggestions on the subject. Cracked heels lame a horse 

 sometimes to a very great degree, and where the groom 

 is a careless or ignorant one they are not uncommon. A 

 mild dose of physic and dressing with the following oint- 

 ment will set most cases to rights : — Superacetate of lead 

 1 drachm, lard 1 ounce. Horses which are kept on good 

 hard meat all the year round, with occasional physic, have 



