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When the crack only penetrates How 

 through the hoof, without touching the treated, 

 ligament, unlefs the hoof be hollow, 

 it may eafily be cured, by rafping only 

 the edges fmooth, and applying thick 

 pledgets of bafilicon, and binding them 

 down with a piece of foft lift ; if fome 

 precipitate be added to it, this medicine 

 will be improved thereby, and in gene- 

 ral anfwers the end, without any other 

 application. But if you perceive any 

 hollownefs under the hoof, and that the 

 cleft has a tendency to penetrate through 

 the griftle or ligament, the beft method, 

 in that cafe, is to fire out of hand with 

 irons that are not made too hot, firft 

 rafping very thin and wide, from both 

 fides of the cleft: the horfe muft not 

 carry any weight for fome time, but be 

 turned out to grafs, or wintered in a good 

 farm -yard. 



A quittor is an ulcer formed between A qulttor 

 the hair and hoof, ufually the infide defcribcd, 

 quarter of a horfe's foot ; it arifes often 

 from treads and bruifes, fometimes from 

 gravel, which, by working its way up- 

 wards, lodges about the coronet : if it is 

 only fuperficial, it may be cured with 

 cleanfing dreflings, bathing the coronet 



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