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Directiou» for Cure in obstinate Cases. 



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If the above method of treatment be attended to, 

 it will prove sufficient to prevent the fever settling 

 in bis feet. 



Where this disease has been standing a consi- 

 derable time, small lumps of the size of a large 

 nut or filbert, will appear upon the coronet on 

 each side of the heel : these may be properly 

 called splints of a ringbone, as they in general 

 arise from the same cause. The cure will be the 

 best performed if treated in the following manner. 



First clip off the hair, three or four inches, 

 broad, all round the coronet ; prick the lumps on 

 each side the heel in the same manner as for 

 bone-spavins;* and then dress the part with 

 the blistering ointment (No. 135, p. 205,) or 

 (No. 136, p. 206,) as there directed. As soon 

 as the blister has done running (if in the 

 winter) he may be turned into a warm straw- 

 yard, and there run till spring. But if the 

 horse undergoes the operation in the spring, he 



• Sec Chap. XXXVI. p. 200. 



