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Further Instructions for Cure. 



should have a summer*s run on some low situation. 

 If the animal is only foundered in one foot, and 

 the hoof is not contracted or less than the other, 

 the sole may be drawn, and the shoe easily put 

 on ; then let the foot be well stopped, or filled 

 up, with an equal quantity of fresh nettles and 

 salt, pounded together in a mortar ; and then co- 

 vered over with pledgets of hurds well pressed 

 down, and secured with three or four splints 

 made of wood, and put across under the shoe ; 

 by this method the bleeding will soon be stop- 

 ped.* This being done, clip off the hair all round 

 the coronet, and fire him neatly ; afterwards, let 

 the blistering ointment (No. 113, p. 171,) be 

 well rubbed on the part affected, three or four 

 mornings together. It should always be remem- 

 bered that the horse's head must be tied up to 

 the rack, lest he bite the part and blister his 



* It will be proper to let this dressins; remain in the foot 

 twenty-four hours; after which, dress the foot with the mixture 

 (No. 173, p. 288,) and then stop it up with (No. 174, p. 288 ) Thii 

 ihouid be repeated o ice a day until a new sole appears, then 

 once every other daj will be sufficient to effect a cure. 



