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DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



the extent of treatment used by the average of practitioners, 

 which in the writer's judgment is not sufficient. Mobihty must 

 be aided as much as possible, to assist in preventing and remo^- 

 ing any irritation caused by motion. In the course of time the 

 foot became narrower and liigher at the heels, the frog smaller, 

 and the convexity of the sole greatly increased. Notwithstanding 



I had at various 

 times during this 

 period consulted 

 with different 

 veterinary sur- 



geons of consid- 

 erable reputa- 

 tion, the treat- 

 ment recom- 

 mended was 

 merely pallia- 

 tive, and prac- 

 tically did no 

 good. The near- 

 est any of them 

 came to giving 

 any relief, was 

 in putting on a 

 convex shoe to 

 relieve contrac- 



FiG. 699. 



As the seton should be inserted into the foot. 



C Navicular bone ; 



A, A. The seton ; B. The sensitive frog ; 

 B. Insensitive frog. 



tion, and blistering the coronet, for which instruction the v/riter 

 was charged twenty-five dollars, but the case had run too long, 

 and the treatment did no ofood. Now, with the treatment here 

 given, it would have been a very simple matter to have relieved 

 this case, if taken in time. But not knowing anything about the 

 proper treatment myself at the time, a valuable horse W"as ruined. 

 In some simple cases the eflfect of raising the heels and rounding 

 the toe is often quite remarkable. 



I will refer to one case in point: At a little town in the 

 western part of New York, near Jamestown, a farmer who had 

 attended my class, wished me to look at a young horse that had 

 been lame for some time. I took the horse to the blacksmith 

 shop and ordered the shoe removed, the toe hammered down and 



