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A single piece of stiff tliin leather, tlie shape of a half-moon, 

 without any padding, is a good sort of boot for a horse that cuts. 

 It must be strapped on a little above the fetlock. Great attention 

 should be paid to the shoeing of horses with this defect, though it 

 often proceeds from weakness, or when a horse is tired. 



DEFECTS IN THE HORSE, EXAMINATION FOR. 



The head: The eyes, for cataract, glass eyes, and specks. The 

 nostrils, for glanders, tumours, and colds. The glands, between the 

 brooches of the lower jaw, for enlargement. The throat, for mark 

 of crib-biting strap, and the tenderness which accompanies cold. 

 The teeth, for the age and marks of crib-biting. The veins of the 

 neck, to see that both are entire. The foreleg and shoulder : The 

 seat of the collar, for tumours. The point of the elbow, for 

 tumours. The knee, for blemishes and stiffness of that joint. The 

 shank, for speedy cut, splent, and strain. The fetlock- joint, for 

 enlargement, windgalls, unnerving, and marks of cutting. The 

 pastern, for ringbone. The foot, for side-bones, sandcrack, con- 

 tractions, thrush, coins, and flat soles. The shoe, for signs of 

 cutting. The trunk quarters : Each side of the chest, for marks of 

 blisters and rowels. The space between the forelegs, for the same. 

 The stifle, for enlargement. The groin, for rupture. The hock, for 

 capped hock, curb, thorough-pin, bone-spavin and bog-spavin (or 

 blood-spavin). Then the horse should be mounted and ridden a 

 few hundred yards at a gallop, in order to quicken his breathing, 

 and thereby display the presence or absence of roaring, thick-wind, 

 or broken-wind. 



DRENCH. 



Salts may be given as a drench. The dose is from 6oz. to lOoz. 

 or even 12oz., dissolved in whey or barley-water. A good drench 

 for common purposes is composed of castor oil 4oz., Epsom salts 

 ooz. to 6oz., gruel 2 pints, mix. 



ENLARGED GLANDS. 



If situated in the throat, syringe the nostrils every other day with 

 the solution of the nitrate of silver (8gr. to the ounce of water) ; 

 feed bountifully on a highly nutritious diet, and administer daily a 

 ball containing -Jdr. of the iodide of iron. 



ERYSIPELAS. 



Erysipelas consists in an inflammatory action of the skin and sub- 



