COKNS. — PRICKS TEOM SHOEINa, PUNCTUEED FOOT. 523 



Teeatmeis't. — The best remedies and modes of treatment, 

 in general, are — paring out the Corns, and afterwards applying 

 a leather sole and a bar- shoe to the foot. The foot should also 

 be dressed with Tar, or Balsam of Sulphur and tow. In 

 those cases where the lameness is acute, and the Corn is of 

 very recent origin, the foot should be well poulticed with a 

 compound of bran, linseed meal, and hot water. Sometimes 

 a Corn will inflame and suppurate. Poultices, in cases of this 

 kind, are indispensable. 



PRICKS FROM SHOEING.— PUNCTURED FOOT. 

 Injury to the foot from pricking the sensitive structures 

 when nailing the shoe upon the foot, and puncture of the organ 

 from gathering a nail, are matters of daily occurrence ; and as 

 the two are of a very similar character, the few remarks I have 

 to make will apply equally to both. 



Teeatment. — When the foot is pricked or punctured, the 

 shoe ought to be removed, and the sole of the foot should be 

 pared until it readily springs from pressure ; the organ should 

 then be immersed in a large poultice — composed of bran, linseed 

 meal, and hot water, and the poultice should be changed every 

 six or eight hours, and its use persevered in until the inflamma- 

 tory action arising from the injury subsides. The wound should 

 also be occasionally examined, to see if matter be secreted 

 within, — and if secreted, it should be freely evacuated ; after 

 which, if judiciously treated, the effects of the injury will be 

 speedily removed. 



Sometimes a nail will puncture the foot at the side of the 

 frog, and forced so far into the soft tissues as to penetrate the 

 flexor tendon, or the cof&n joint, and perhaps liberate the synovia 

 of the joint, in which case, unless prevented by proper treatment, 

 all the evil effects of Open Joint will supervene. The proper 



