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sliould take an additional quantity from the plate veins. A 

 dose of physic should be given as soon as possible, and followed 

 by febrifuge medicine. tJnless the urgency of the symptoms is 

 considerably remitted by the following day, the blecdino- should 

 be repeated. The poultices should be continued for several 

 days together with the warm fomentations, and should then be 

 succeeded by cold a])plications, applied by means of cloths tied 

 round the pasterns, and made to fall closely over and around 

 the crust. The refrigerating lotion recommended for strains 

 will be found very useful at this stage of the disease. 



" After this treatment has been practised for about a week, we 



shall find it advantageous to blister the 

 coronet, taking care to foment the parts 

 about twelve hours after the application 

 of the blister, which, by this method, may 

 be repeated in a few days. Should the 

 treatment be neglected at first, or not 

 sufficiently energetic, and, in some cases, 

 even in sj)ite of all we may do, disorgan- 

 isation will take place ; the elastic con- 

 nections of the laminae will give way, at 

 any rate will be unable to oppose the 

 action of the flexor tendon, which thus, 

 having no antagonist, draws the toe of 

 the coffin bone downwards and back- 

 wards, and away from the crust, and the 

 sole, at the same time, becomes convex : 

 and thus we find in morbid specimens of 

 this disease a considerable space between 

 the toe of the coffin bone and the crust, 

 the bone becoming preternaturally \x\r- 



Tlnee side vU'ic-s of the Hoof, ^'^S^^*^' '^"^^ ^^^C Crust morC obliquC, this 



showing the different de. sjiuce being filled up by a morbid depo- 

 sition, the character of which appears 

 somewhat between horn and bone. \Vhen 



in its 



grees of obliqinty 

 form. 

 Fig. ]. A side view of tlie , . . , , . 



sound iioof, with a scale, tiHs IS the casc, the horsc IS rendered al- 



showing the proper degree most USclcsS, fit Only for sloW WOrk OU Soft 



of obliquity to be 45 de- g^Q^nf] ..q^pre the 'frog and bars can as- 



grees or elevation; a, the P. . . i • u • i 



quarter; h, the heel; c, SlSt m SUpportmg the auunal S W^Clght. 

 the toe. 



Fig. 2. Side view of the con- " Chronic Lamiiiitis is a disease very 

 wMchThe w'has^^los't i't" ^nsidious in its approach, and the first 

 natural form, and ap- symptonis being obscurc, its eftects are 

 proaches 5 degrees toward oftcner destructive than the more active 



the horizontal line. i i i • , i- i t ,i 



malady Ave nave just noticed, in the 



^'foo^efrlj^the p^erpenS ^^^ter, we Can often knock down the 



lar. disease with the first blow, by means 



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