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the preventive treatment consists in hindering the animal from 

 taking a position that may favor injnrv to the part. Confining 

 the animal in a small stall and tying it with too short a halter 

 strap favors a sternal position when lying dowm. A roomy stall 

 that pennits the animal to stretch or change position is an im- 

 portant preventive measure. Shoes that project beyond the qnar- 



FiG. 32.— Shoe-boil. 



ters shonld be avoided. The elbow may be protected by placing 

 a thick pad over the heels when the animal is in the stable. 



Local treatment varies according to the character of the 

 enlargement. Soft, doughy swellings may be treated by aj^pli- 

 cation of cold, iodine and blisters. The cystic form of tumor 

 must be opened, the fluid removed and the lining membrane 

 destroyed by the injection of tincture of iodine. Hard, indurated 



