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SADDLE GALLS 



Are usually easily renioved by balhinf? them with 

 tlie 

 Embrocation for Strains, &c. [page 18]. 



SAND CRACK. 



Tiiis is a division of the horny fibres of the hoof 

 from above dovniwards in the form of a crack. It 

 sometimes comes on at once by a sudden splitting of 

 the hoof in hot dry vreather, more frequcnth- on the 

 outer than the inner side, and more usual in the fore 

 than the hhiderfeet; but the most frequent cause, is, 

 a wound of the coronet by a tread, puncture, or too 

 free use of the rasp in shoeing. 



To cure, the principal circumstance to be attend- 

 ed to, is, to prevent the communication between the 

 crack and the new horn, or as this grows it will take 

 on the openinsf likewise. The lioof should therefore 

 be thinned where the crack exists, and at the upper 

 part a transverse section should be made a little way 

 across v.ith a firing iron: the crack should then be 

 kept carefully closed by binding a bandage tightly 

 around the hoof; for if the edges of the vascular 

 substance cojne between the edges of the crack, it 

 gives intolerable pain ; and it is this that brings a horse 

 w ith sand crack nearly to the ground by those suddea 

 jerks that are observed in them. Opposite the part, 

 tlie shoe should be slightly chambered, which gives a 

 disposition to the divided edges to come together^ 

 and the hoof should be pared away at this part a 

 little. 



